International and national armed conflicts are usually preceded by a media campaign in which public figures foment ethnic, national, racial or religious hatred, inciting listeners to acts of violence. Incitement on Trial evaluates the efforts of international criminal tribunals to hold such inciters criminally responsible. This is an unsettled area of international criminal law, and prosecutors have often struggled to demonstrate a causal connection between speech acts and subsequent crimes. This book identifies 'revenge speech' as the type of rhetoric with the greatest effects on empathy and tolerance for violence. Wilson argues that inciting speech should be handled under the preventative doctrine of inchoate crimes, but that once international crimes have been committed, then ordering and complicity are the most appropriate forms of criminal liability. Based in extensive original research, this book proposes an evidence-based risk assessment model for monitoring political speech.
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1. Inciting speech in international law and social science; 2. Direct and public incitement to commit genocide: an inchoate crime; 3. Causation in international speech crimes; 4. Instigating persecution: the prosecution case against Vojislav Šešelj; 5. Metaphors, agency and mental causation in speech crimes trials; 6. Social research in international speech crimes trials; 7. The social science of persuasion; 8. A new model for preventing and punishing international speech crimes.
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'As advocates and courts struggle to address the intuition that speech is to blame for sometimes massive harm, Richard Ashby Wilson has given the cutting edge topic social scientific richness and reflective depth. A superb achievement.' Samuel Moyn, Yale Law School
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This book explains why international criminal tribunals struggle to monitor inciting speech, and proposes a model of prevention and punishment.
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781107103108
Publisert
2017-08-18
Utgiver
Vendor
Cambridge University Press
Vekt
640 gr
Høyde
236 mm
Bredde
159 mm
Dybde
24 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
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Antall sider
376
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