Journal of International Criminal Justice Advance Access originally published online on August 7, 2007
Journal of International Criminal Justice 2007 5(4):977-1001; doi:10.1093/jicj/mqm038
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Criminalizing Complicity
A Comparative Analysis
* Professor of Law and Director, Buffalo Criminal Law Center, SUNY Buffalo School of Law. I am grateful to Lutz Eidam, Judith Hauer, Kevin Heller, Tatjana Hörnle, Tobias Liebau, Cornelius Nestler and Bernd Schünemann for many helpful suggestions. [ dubber{at}buffalo.edu]
| Abstract |
|---|
The Rome Statute's provision on complicity is remarkably vague given the significance of the issue in international criminal law. In search of guidance, this article takes a closer look at the models for accomplice liability in domestic criminal law, focusing on two systems that may be taken as representatives of the civil law and common law world, respectively: German and American criminal law.