In trials against war criminals, the defendants often plead not guilty by reason of insanity in an effort to avoid assuming responsibility for the charged acts. The paper discusses the history of the insanity defence and some factors that might explain why war crimes are committed. The authors concentrate primarily on the psychological elements of insanity and the reasons for extreme violence appearing at the individual level. Persons charged with war crimes often use post-traumatic stress disorder as the basis for an insanity defence. The authors also consider insanity from the perspective of international criminal law. By explicitly and precisely defining insanity, the Rome Statute moved away from the general provisions employed by the Nu...
The objective of this thesis is to investigate the status of the crime of ‘terror’ as a war crime un...
I want to present three potential problems of the Yugoslav War Crimes Tribunal which may limit the T...
There are several perspectives from which one could analyze the insanity defense and involuntary civ...
This paper examines the role of the mental health sector evidence in international war crimes prosec...
located in The Hague, The Netherlands. Although such action has been discussed in the past, this is ...
In the summer of 2011, Anders Behring Breivik committed a terrorist attack in Norway in which 77 peo...
Following the armed conflict in the former Yugoslavia, a new criminology of war developed, producing...
The following paper was read at a meeting of "The Association of Surgeons and Physicians of Malta", ...
The aim of the study is to analyze the possibility of the insanity as ground for total or partial ex...
The aim of the study is to analyse documents produced during trials at the International Criminal Tr...
The author discusses the applicability of international law concerning armed conflicts and especiall...
During the World War II unbelievable atrocities were committed. The International Community decided ...
Copyright © 2021 The Author. International criminal courts and tribunals do not assess warfare’s psy...
This article examines the role of the mental health sector evidence in international crimes prosecut...
Teisinis psichinės prievartos vertinimas – tai aktuali teorinė ir praktinė baudžiamosios justicijos ...
The objective of this thesis is to investigate the status of the crime of ‘terror’ as a war crime un...
I want to present three potential problems of the Yugoslav War Crimes Tribunal which may limit the T...
There are several perspectives from which one could analyze the insanity defense and involuntary civ...
This paper examines the role of the mental health sector evidence in international war crimes prosec...
located in The Hague, The Netherlands. Although such action has been discussed in the past, this is ...
In the summer of 2011, Anders Behring Breivik committed a terrorist attack in Norway in which 77 peo...
Following the armed conflict in the former Yugoslavia, a new criminology of war developed, producing...
The following paper was read at a meeting of "The Association of Surgeons and Physicians of Malta", ...
The aim of the study is to analyze the possibility of the insanity as ground for total or partial ex...
The aim of the study is to analyse documents produced during trials at the International Criminal Tr...
The author discusses the applicability of international law concerning armed conflicts and especiall...
During the World War II unbelievable atrocities were committed. The International Community decided ...
Copyright © 2021 The Author. International criminal courts and tribunals do not assess warfare’s psy...
This article examines the role of the mental health sector evidence in international crimes prosecut...
Teisinis psichinės prievartos vertinimas – tai aktuali teorinė ir praktinė baudžiamosios justicijos ...
The objective of this thesis is to investigate the status of the crime of ‘terror’ as a war crime un...
I want to present three potential problems of the Yugoslav War Crimes Tribunal which may limit the T...
There are several perspectives from which one could analyze the insanity defense and involuntary civ...