The Fallacious Demonization of Child Soldiers

Sonja C. Grover ()
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Sonja C. Grover: Lakehead University

Chapter Chapter 2 in Child Soldier Victims of Genocidal Forcible Transfer, 2012, pp 61-136 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The contemporary movement to hold child soldiers accountable for international crimes (whether this accountability is to be via judicial or non-judicial mechanisms) is confronted with particular fundamental practical and conceptual hurdles. A prime practical difficulty is generally held by most legal scholars to be the lack of a universal minimum age of criminal responsibility for international crimes under international law (as well as the lack of a universal age of criminal culpability for international crimes when codified as offenses under domestic law):…with regard to the criminal responsibility of children for international crimes, a particular problem exists.

Keywords: International Criminal Court; Rome Statute; International Crime; Criminal Responsibility; Armed Group (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-23614-3_2

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