Confronting the shadow state : an international law perspective on state organized crime / Henri Decœur.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Decœur, Henri, author.

Contributor:

Class of 1924 Book Fund.

Series:

Oxford monographs in international law

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

State crimes.

Organized crime.

International criminal law.

Physical Description:

xxx, 271 pages ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2018.

Summary:

In this first comprehensive analysis of state organized crime from the perspective of international law, Decoeur discusses how international law can and should be used to tackle state organized crime and argues for the development of international legal mechanisms specifically designed to address this issue.

Contents:

I. State organized crime

The phenomenon of state organized crime

II. The limits of applicable international law

State responsibility for state organized crime

International criminal law instruments for the suppression of organized crime and corruption

The limits of applicable crime-suppression conventions

III. International legal mechanisms for the suppression of state organized crime

A normative justification for establishing state organized crime as an international crime

A convention for the suppression of state organized crime

The potential role of the UN Security Council in the suppression of state organized crime

The potential role of international criminal tribunals in the suppression of state organized crime.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-266) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780198823933

0198823932

OCLC:

1014447155