CRM 322 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Original Intent, Strafgesetzbuch, Nuremberg Trials

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 322
• Professor: Idil Atak

Document Summary

Genocide parts: enumerated crimes, the protected groups, intent. The concept of genocide is pretty new (developed after ww2) even though it surely happened before. It was developed by jewish lawyer raphael lemmkin, that worked to get this crime defined. The term received legal recognition during nuremberg trials, even though they did not really used it (cid:271)ut (cid:862)(cid:272)ri(cid:373)es agai(cid:374)st hu(cid:373)a(cid:374)it(cid:455)(cid:863) dealt (cid:449)ith (cid:373)a(cid:374)(cid:455) a(cid:272)ts that (cid:272)ould (cid:272)o(cid:374)stitute ge(cid:374)o(cid:272)ide. The(cid:455) also referred to ge(cid:374)o(cid:272)ide, u(cid:374)der the i(cid:374)flue(cid:374)(cid:272)e of le(cid:373)(cid:373)ki(cid:374). The (cid:449)ord (cid:858)ge(cid:374)o(cid:272)ide(cid:859) did (cid:374)ot appear i(cid:374) the judg(cid:373)e(cid:374)t (cid:271)ut they did relate to acts that would constitute genocide today. The really important element about genocide convention it was a product of really long negotiation place. Let(cid:859)s look at the defi(cid:374)itio(cid:374) of ge(cid:374)o(cid:272)ide a(cid:374)d u(cid:374)pa(cid:272)k it. This definition immigrated to icty,ictr and icc (yoguslavia, rowanda and international court) in all of those the same and did not change over the years.