- Summary
- 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. 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 and identifies "revenge speech" as the type of rhetoric with the greatest effects on empathy and tolerance for violence. -- from back cover.
- Series
- Cambridge studies in law and society
Cambridge studies in law and society.
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Wilson, Richard, 1964- author.
- Published
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017
©2017
- Contents
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Inciting speech in international law and social science
Direct and public incitement to commit genocide : an inchoate crime
Causation in international speech crimes
Instigating persecution : the prosecution case against Vojislav Šešelj
Metaphors, agency and mental causation in speech crimes trials
Social research in international speech crimes trials
Social science of inciting speech and persuasion
A new model for preventing and punishing international speech crimes.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-339) and index.
Inciting speech in international law and social science -- Direct and public incitement to commit genocide : an inchoate crime -- Causation in international speech crimes -- Instigating persecution : the prosecution case against Vojislav Šešelj -- Metaphors, agency and mental causation in speech crimes trials -- Social research in international speech crimes trials -- Social science of inciting speech and persuasion -- A new model for preventing and punishing international speech crimes.
