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The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court - A Commentary edited by Cassese, Antonio; Gaeta, Paola; Jones, John RWD (25th July 2002)
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Volume I, s.3 Jurisdiction, 11 Jurisdiction Ratione Materiae, Ch.11.6 Cumulation of Offences

Susanne Walther

From: The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court

Edited By: Professor Antonio Cassese, Professor Paola Gaeta, Mr John R.W.D. Jones

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Book content
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Oxford Scholarly Authorities on International Law [OSAIL]
Published in print:
25 July 2002
ISBN:
9780198298625

From: Oxford Public International Law (http://opil.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2015. All Rights Reserved.date: 15 December 2019

The subject of ‘cumulation of offences’ presents highly complex legal issues. This is because criminal justice doctrine operates with more than one notion of the term ‘the crime’. Reference to ‘the crime’ can, first, be meant in a historical or empirical sense. The reference then is to the criminal act, deed, or transaction, as empirical event (for instance, the ‘bank robbery’, the ‘raiding of village X’, ‘the attack on Y’, etc.). Second, ‘the crime’ can also be used in a legalistic or definitional sense; reference is then to a specific ‘crime on the books’, i.e....
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