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ALPHABETICAL INDEX

A

Accused not testifying, not aggravating factor, sentencing           

Active and direct criminal participation, aggravating factor, sentencing

Acts of the accused form part of the attack, crimes against humanity

Actual knowledge, mental state, command responsibility

Affirmative defenses

Affirmative defenses, diminished mental responsibility not a defense

Affirmative defenses, duress does not afford a complete defense

Affirmative defenses, involvement in defensive operation not a defense

Affirmative defenses, tu quoque principle rejected

Age, mitigating factor, sentencing

Aggravating factors, sentencing

Aiding and abetting, defined

Aiding and abetting, difference between “aiding and abetting” and “participation in a joint criminal enterprise”

Aiding and abetting, generally

Aiding and abetting, mental state

Aiding and abetting, the act (actus reus), individual responsibility

Armed conflict, crimes against humanity

Armed conflict, war crimes, Article 2

Armed conflict, war crimes, Article 3

Attack must be “directed against any civilian population,” crimes against

Attack must be “widespread or systematic,” crimes against humanity

Attack must have occurred, crimes against humanity

Assistance to detainees, mitigating factor, sentencing

B

C

Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group, genocide

Character of accused, aggravating factor, sentencing

Character of accused, mitigating factor, sentencing

Charging, convictions and sentencing

Circumstances of offenses, aggravating factor, sentencing

Civilian detainee, aggravating factor, sentencing

“Civilian population,” crimes against humanity

Command responsibility, Article 7(3)

Command responsibility, elements

Command responsibility, failure of superior to take measures to prevent

Command responsibility, mental state 

Command responsibility, statute

Command responsibility, superior-subordinate relationship

Command responsibility, superior responsibility is not a form of strict

Committing, generally

Committing, individual responsibility for

Committing, mental state (mens rea)

Committing, the act (actus reus)

Common purpose doctrine/joint criminal enterprise, difference between a joint criminal enterprise

Common purpose doctrine/joint criminal enterprise, elements

Common purpose doctrine/joint criminal enterprise, generally

Common purpose doctrine/joint criminal enterprise, individual

Common purpose doctrine/joint criminal enterprise, mental state

Consistency of sentences yet individualized sentencing

Contempt proceedings, ethics 

Cooperation of accused, mitigating factor, sentencing

Credit given for time in detention pending trial, sentencing

Crimes against humanity, acts of the accused must form part of the attack

Crimes against humanity, armed conflict required

Crimes against humanity, Article 5

Crimes against humanity, attack must be “directed against any civilian

Crimes against humanity, attack must be “widespread or systematic”

Crimes against humanity, attack required

Crimes against humanity, elements

Crimes against humanity, enslavement

Crimes against humanity, extermination

Crimes against humanity, imprisonment

Crimes against humanity, mental state 

Crimes against humanity, murder

Crimes against humanity, other inhumane acts

Crimes against humanity, persecution

Crimes against humanity, rape

Crimes against humanity, statute

Crimes against humanity, torture

Crimes against humanity, underlying offenses

Cruel and inhuman treatment, generally, war crimes, Article 2

Cruel treatment, war crimes, Article 2

Cruel treatment, war crimes, Article 3

Cumulative charging and convictions

D

Date of judgment, sentence to run from, sentencing

Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to

Destruction or willful damage to institutions dedicated to religion or

Diminished mental responsibility, mitigating factor, sentencing

Diminished mental responsibility, not a defense

“Directed against” any civilian population, crimes against humanity

Discretion to impose life imprisonment, sentencing

Discriminatory state of mind, aggravating factor, sentencing

Double jeopardy, sentencing

Duress does not afford a complete defense

Duress, mitigating factor, sentencing

E

Egregious nature of how crime was committed, aggravating factor,

Enslavement, crimes against humanity

Equality of arms principle

Ethics

Ethics, contempt proceedings

Ethics, impartiality of judges

Examples of persecution, crimes against humanity

Existence of an armed conflict, war crimes, Article 2

Extensive destruction of property not justified by military necessity,

Extermination, crimes against humanity

F

Factors for assessing gravity of crimes, sentencing

Failure of superior to take measures to prevent or punish, command

Forcibly transferring children of one group to another group, genocide

G

Genocide, Article 4

Genocide, causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group

Genocide, definition

Genocide, deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated

Genocide, forcibly transferring children of one group to another group

Genocide, imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group

Genocide, killing members of the group

Genocide, mental state

Genocide, statute

Genocide, underlying offenses

Goal of penalties, sentencing

Guilty plea including remorse and reconciliation, mitigating factor,

Guilty plea, test for accepting plea

H

I

Impartiality of judges

Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group, genocide

Imprisonment, crimes against humanity

Indirect or forced participation, mitigating factor, sentencing

Individual responsibility, aiding and abetting 

Individual responsibility, Article 7(1)

Individual responsibility, committing

Individual responsibility, difference between “aiding and abetting” and

Individual responsibility, generally

Individual responsibility, instigating

Individual responsibility, joint criminal enterprise/the common purpose

Individual responsibility, ordering

Individual responsibility, planning

Individual responsibility, statute

Informed, guilty plea must be

Inherent jurisdiction of tribunal to deal with contempt, contempt

Inhuman treatment, war crimes, Article 2

Instigating, generally, individual responsibility 

Instruments governing penalties, sentencing/penalties

Involvement in defensive operation, not a defense

J

Joint criminal enterprise/the common purpose doctrine, individual

Judicial bias test, impartiality of judges, ethics

Jurisdiction

K

Killing members of the group, genocide

L

Lack of strength of character, not a mitigating factor, sentencing

Lawyer-client privilege, does not cover defense witness statements

M

Magnitude of crime and scale of accused’s role, aggravating factor,

Mental state (mens rea), “a national, ethnical, racial or religious group,

Mental state (mens rea), actual knowledge, command responsibility

Mental state (mens rea), aiding and abetting

Mental state (mens rea), committing

Mental state (mens rea), extermination, crimes against humanity

Mental state (mens rea), for command responsibility, Article 7(3)

Mental state (mens rea), for crimes against humanity, Article 5

Mental state (mens rea), for genocide, Article 4

Mental state (mens rea), for planning, instigating, ordering, committing,

Mental state (mens rea), for war crimes, Article 2

Mental state (mens rea), for war crimes, Article 3

Mental state (mens rea), instigating

Mental state (mens rea), intent, crimes against humanity

Mental state (mens rea), intent to destroy in whole or in part, genocide

Mental state (mens rea), knowledge, crimes against humanity

Mental state (mens rea), murder, crimes against humanity

Mental state (mens rea), other inhumane acts, crimes against humanity

Mental state (mens rea), outrages upon personal dignity, war crimes,

Mental state (mens rea), persecution, crimes against humanity

Mental state (mens rea), reason to know, command responsibility

Mental state (mens rea), torture, crimes against humanity

Mental state (mens rea), torture, war crimes, Article 3

Mental state (mens rea), unlawful labor, war crimes, Article 3

Minimum sentence, sentencing

Mitigating factors, sentencing

Murder, crimes against humanity

Murder, war crimes, Article 3

N

Nexus between armed conflict and alleged offense, war crimes, Article 3

Nexus between conflict and crimes alleged, war crimes, Article 2

O

Occupation

Occupation, guidelines for determining

Occupation, where relevant

Ordering, individual responsibility for 

Other inhumane acts, crimes against humanity

Outrages upon personal dignity, war crimes, Article 3

Overall control test, war crimes, Article 2

P

Participation of superior in criminal acts of subordinate, aggravating factor,

Penalties

Penalties, governing instruments

Persecution, crimes against humanity

Person or property at issue must be protected, war crimes, Article 2

Personal circumstances or family concerns, mitigating factor, sentencing

Planning, individual responsibility for

Plunder, war crimes, Article 3

Poor health, mitigating factor in rare cases, sentencing

Position of the accused, aggravating factor, sentencing

Post-conflict conduct, mitigating factor, sentencing

Premeditation and motive, aggravating factor, sentencing

Prior decisions, weight to give

Proving responsibility under both Articles 7(1) and 7(3), aggravating factor,

Q

R

Ranking of crimes, sentencing

Rape, crimes against humanity

Rape, war crimes, Article 2

Rape, war crimes, Article 3

Rape and other forms of sexual violence as torture, war crimes, Article 3

Reason to know, mental state, command responsibility

Reflect gravity of crime, sentencing

Reflect significance of role of defendant, sentencing

Required acts, persecution, crimes against humanity

Role as fellow perpetrator, aggravating factor, sentencing

Role of a state official not necessary, torture, crimes against humanity

S

Sentencing

Sentencing, aggravating factors

Sentencing, aggravating and mitigating factors

Sentencing, aggravating and mitigating factors, burden of proof

Sentencing, consistency of sentences yet still individualized

Sentencing, credit given for time in detention pending trial

Sentencing, discretion to impose life imprisonment

Sentencing, double jeopardy impacting on sentence

Sentencing, factors

Sentencing, factors for assessing gravity of offenses

Sentencing, generally

Sentencing, goal of penalties

Sentencing, governing instruments
Sentencing, minimum sentence

Sentencing, mitigating factors

Sentencing, ranking of crimes

Sentencing, reflective of gravity of crime

Sentencing, sentence can be lengthened if discernible error

Sentencing, sentence should reflect significance of the role of the

Sentencing, sentence to run from date of judgment

Sentencing, totality principle

Sentencing factors, sentencing

Sentencing practices in former Yugoslavia

Sexual nature of crime and vulnerability of victims, aggravating factor,

Slavery, war crime, Article 3

Status of victims and effect of crimes on them, aggravating factor,

Statute, command responsibility

Statute, crimes against humanity, Article 5

Statute, genocide, Article 4

Statute, individual responsibility

Statute, war crimes, Article 2

Statute, war crimes, Article 3

Superior-subordinate relationship, command responsibility  

Systematic attack, crimes against humanity

T

Taking civilians as hostages, war crimes, Article 2

Taking of hostages, war crimes, Article 3

Test for accepting guilty pleas

Test for appellate review of Trial Chamber’s factual findings

Time period during which offenses committed, aggravating factor,

Torture, crimes against humanity

Torture, war crimes, Article 2

Torture, war crimes, Article 3

Torture or cruel and inhuman treatment, war crimes, Article 2

Torture, rape and other forms of sexual violence as torture, war crimes,

Totality principle, sentencing

Tu quoque principle, argument that the adversary committed similar crimes

Type of participation in crime, aggravating factor, sentencing

U

Underlying offenses, crimes against humanity

Underlying offenses, genocide

Underlying offenses, war crimes, Article 2

Underlying offenses, war crimes, Article 3

Unequivocal, guilty plea must be

Unlawful attacks on civilians and civilian objects, war crimes, Article 3

Unlawful confinement of civilians and imprisonment, war crimes,

Unlawful labor, war crimes, Article 3

Unlawful transfer, war crimes, Article 2

V

Violence to life and person, war crimes, Article 3

Voluntary, guilty plea must be

Voluntary surrender, mitigating factor, sentencing

W

Wanton destruction not justified by military necessity, war crimes,

War crimes, armed conflict must be international, Article 2

War crimes, armed conflict must be international, overall control test,

War crimes, armed conflict must exist, Article 2

War crimes, armed conflict whether internal or international must exist,

War crimes, Article 3 covers acts committed in both internal and

War crimes, Article 3 functions as a residual clause, Article 3

War crimes, Article 3, generally

War crimes, conditions for determining which violations fall within

War crimes, cruel and inhuman treatment, Article 2

War crimes, cruel treatment, Article 3

War crimes, destruction or willful damage to institutions dedicated

War crimes, elements, Article 2

War crimes, elements, Article 3

War crimes, existence of an armed conflict, Article 2  

War crimes, extensive destruction of property not justified by military

War crimes, for Common Article 3 crimes must be committed against

War crimes, grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions of 1949,

War crimes, inhuman treatment, Article 2

War crimes, mental state, Article 2 

War crimes, mental state, Article 3

War crimes, murder, Article 3

War crimes, nexus between the armed conflict and alleged offense,

War crimes, nexus between the conflict and crimes alleged, Article 2

War crimes, outrages upon personal dignity, Article 3

War crimes, overall control test, Article 2

War crimes, person or property at issue must be protected, Article 2

War crimes, plunder, Article 3

War crimes, rape, Article 2

War crimes, rape, Article 3

War crimes, rationale for why Common Article 3 violations are covered,

War crimes, slavery, Article 3

War crimes, statute, Article 2

War crimes, statute, Article 3

War crimes, taking civilians as hostages, Article 2

War crimes, taking of hostages, Article 3

War crimes, torture, Article 2

War crimes, torture, Article 3

War crimes, torture or cruel and inhuman treatment, Article 2

War crimes, underlying offenses, Article 2

War crimes, underlying offenses, Article 3

War crimes, unlawful attacks on civilians and civilian objects, Article 3

War crimes, unlawful confinement of civilians and imprisonment,

War crimes, unlawful labor, Article 3

War crimes, unlawful transfer, Article 2

War crimes, violations of international humanitarian law that are covered,

War crimes, violence to life and person, Article 3

War crimes, wanton destruction not justified by military necessity,

War crimes, willful killing, Article 2

War crimes, willfully causing great suffering or serious injury to body or

Weight to give prior decisions

Weight to give prior decisions, Appeals Chamber to follow its previous

Weight to give prior decisions, Appeals Chamber decisions binding on

Weight to give prior decisions, Trial Chamber decisions not binding on

Widespread attack, crimes against humanity

Willfully causing great suffering or serious injury to body or health,

Willful killing, war crimes, Article 2

X

Y

Youthful age of victims and number of victims, aggravating factor, sentencing

Z


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February 2004