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Beiträge zum Strafrecht - Contributions to Criminal Law v.7
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Cover -- 3rd Elisabeth Käsemann Symposium, Buenos Aires 2019 Past andFuture -- International Dialogue as a tool for truth and accountability: shared experiences in the third Elisabeth Käsemann Symposium -- I. Traditional legal Instruments -- The Argentine Criminal Code Reform -- I. Introduction -- II. The Criminal Code Reform Commission -- III. The newest Reform of the Criminal Code -- IV. Conclusion -- Traditional legal instruments: Germany and the Prosecution of National Socialist Crimes -- I. Introduction -- II. Difficulties with the prosecution of the crime of genocide and crimes against humanity committed by a state on the base of traditional offencesoffenses -- 1. Legal basis in the criminal code -- 2. Mass murders -- 3. Offences -- 4. Individual responsibility -- 5. The plea of "superior orders" -- 6. Duress -- 7. Statutory limitations -- III. The advantage of a centralized prosecutorial office in such cases -- 1. Problems with the traditional decentralized approach -- 2. Creation of the Central Office -- 3. Task and ways of working -- IV. Collecting evidence for the prosecution of NS-crimes -- 1. Confessions -- 2. Judicial inspection -- 3. Witnesses -- 4. Experts -- 5. Documents -- 6. Main Focus -- V. Mixed results -- Crimes committed by a state and culpability - can the perpetrators "at the bottom" of the organization be held culpable? -- I. Who were the principal perpetrators, who were (only) the accessories? -- II. What has to be proven - certain acts or just the function in the system? -- III. More recent criminal proceedings -- 1. The accused is charged with the following: -- 2. Killing by causing and maintaining conditions hostile to life -- IV. Participation of victims in trials against former SS-personal -- The legal definition of genocide in the Argentine case -- I. Introduction -- II. The Facts -- III. International law
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IV. Argentine case law -- V. Conclusions -- Trials for crimes against humanity in Argentina: Contributions of criminal proceedings to constructing Memory and Truth. -- I. Introduction -- II. The Trial Proceedings and their stages. -- 1. The role of the human rights movement. -- 2. Process of 'Memory, Truth and Justice' or why do we punish? -- III. The contributions of the trials forty years later -- IV. The dispute over the meaning of the past -- V. Conclusion: In defence of anamnestic and messianic justice -- II. Leniency Programs -- Leniency Programs - A Model to cope with the Past? -- I. Introduction -- II. Objective of the Section -- 1. Incentive for Cooperative Perpetrators -- 2. Temptations and Danger of Misuse -- III. Prerequisites for Mitigation of Sentence -- 1. Voluntary Disclosure -- 2. Relationship between the offence committed and the offence to be discovered -- 3. Successful Discovery and Substantial Contribution -- a) Successful Discovery -- b) Substantial Contribution -- 3. Discretion -- IV. Conclusion -- Transitional justice, international duty to punish and leniency programs. The experience of Argentina -- I. Transitional justice and the rights of victims -- 1. The right to truth -- 2. The right to justice -- 3. The right to reparation -- II. Alternative or complementary measures to criminal justice -- III. The experience in Argentina -- 1. Background -- 2. Criminal Trial in Argentina in 1984 -- 3. Peace at jeopardy: Termination of criminal action, due obedience and pardon as a response -- IV. Is leniency accepted in the case of widespread and systematic human rights violations? -- Historical development of leniency programs in Germany -- I. Historical precursors -- II. Historic developments in the seventies - "small" leniency program in the German narcotics law
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III. Historical Developments in the eighties - the "large" leniency program in the Article Law -- IV. State of discussion at the time of enactment of the Article law in 1989 -- 1. Justification for the Article Law -- 2. Objections against the leniency program of the Article Law -- a) Violation of the principle of legality -- b) Lack of effectiveness -- c) Lack of necessity -- d) Possible abuse without consequences for the leniency applicant -- e) Counterproductive effects -- f) Further difficulties in practice -- V. Practical experience with the leniency program of the Article Law -- Leniency Instruments in the Colombian Criminal Procedure -- I. Introduction -- II. Inquisitorial system and its instruments -- 1. Main characteristics and context -- 2. Leniency instruments -- a) Narcotics control Act of 1986 -- b) Guilty pleas -- c) Benefits for effective collaboration -- III. Accusatory system and its instruments -- 1. Main characteristics and context -- 2. Leniency Instruments -- a) Plea-bargaining -- b) Opportunity-principle -- c) Agreements upon guilty-pleas and deferral of prosecution -- IV. Conclusions -- Conditioned Leniency Instruments in the Special Jurisdiction for Peace -- I. Introduction -- II. Integrated System of Truth, Justice, Reparation and Non-Repetition -- 1. Special Jurisdiction for Peace -- 2. Leniency instruments for former FARC members and for members of the public security forces -- a) Amnesties -- b) Types of amnesties -- aa) Amnesty de jure -- bb) Amnesties granted by the Judicial Chamber for Amnesty or Pardon -- c) Waiver of Prosecution -- III. Conditionality regime for the leniency instruments in the SJP -- 1. Conditional release -- 2. Transitional, conditional and anticipated release -- IV. Conclusions -- 1. Justice for victims is a central issue to the peace process
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2. Colombia's Special Jurisdiction for Peace does not violate international standards. -- III. Truth Commissions and Reconciliation -- Experience with Truth Commissions in Africa -- I. Introduction -- II. South Africa -- 1. Legal Framework -- 2. Competence -- 3. Historical Background -- 4. Results -- 5. Evaluation of Results -- III. Burundi -- 1. Legal Framework -- 2. Competence -- 3. Historical Background -- 4. Results -- 5. Evaluation of Results -- IV. The Gambia -- 1. Legal Framework -- 2. Competence -- 3. Historical Background -- 4. Results -- 5. Evaluation of Results -- V. Lessons to be Learned -- 1. Criteria for Success -- 2. Criteria for Failure -- VI. Alternative or Additional Means to Legal Instruments of Traditional Criminal Prosecution -- 1. Prosecutors' Perspective -- 2. Perpetrators' Perspective -- 3. Victims' Perspective -- 4. Effects on Society -- VII. Conclusion -- Memory, Truth and Justice: criminal trials or truth commissions? -- I. Introduction -- II. Definition of Justice and Truth -- III. Necessity of truth-finding -- IV. Differences between criminal trials and truth commissions -- V. Benefits of criminal proceedings -- VI. Retrospective -- VII. Conclusion -- The Truth Comissions as a mechanism for repair societies traversed by mass violence -- I. Introduction -- II. Peace Processes and Clarification of the truth in Colombia -- III. The Truth Commission in Colombia -- IV. The Commissions of Truth and the right to the truth -- V. Criminal judgements and the right to investigate, judge and punish -- VI. Conclusions -- IV. Final Speech -- Past and Future. New Ways of Dealing with Past Conflicts and Past Autocracies Versus Traditional Criminal Prosecution -- Memory, Truth and Justice -- I. Introduction -- II. Inquiry Commissions -- III. The trials -- IV. The right to the truth -- V. Conclusion
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Eisele, Jörg Past and Future : Transitional Justice versus Traditional Criminal Justice? Ways of Dealing with Past Conflicts and Past Autocracies Baden-Baden : Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft,c2020 ISBN 9783848768189
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Law
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Argentinien
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Kolumbien
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Menschenrechtsverletzung
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Vergangenheitsbewältigung
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Transitional Justice
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Strafverfolgung
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Konferenzschrift
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Konferenzschrift
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Konferenzschrift
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