METHODOLOGICAL OPTIONS FOR INTERNATIONAL LEGAL CONTROL OF TERRORISM (FROM INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM AND POLITICAL CRIMES, 1975, BY M C BASSIOUNI - SEE NCJ-27895)

• NCJ Number: 27910
• Author(s): M C BASSIOUNI
• Date Published: 1975
• Length: 8 pages
• Corporate Author: Charles C. Thomas
• Publication Format: Document
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

THE AUTHOR INDICATES CURRENT TRENDS IN THE CONTROL AND PROSECUTION OF TERRORISM OFFENSES, AND REVIEWS THE ROLE OF TERRORISM IN WORLD POLITICS.

Abstract

PROBLEMS IN DEFINITION, CODIFICATION, IMPLEMENTATION, AND ENFORCEMENT OF AN INTERNATIONAL DOCTRINE ON INTERNATIONAL CRIMES ARE DISCUSSED. WHILE AN INTERNATIONAL ENFORCEMENT MECHANISM IS SEEN AS THE BEST AND MOST EQUITABLE MEANS OF REGULATING AND DETERRING CRIMES OF TERRORISM, THE AUTHOR STATES THAT THE CURRENT TREND SEEMS TO BE ONE OF MOVING AWAY FROM THE ELABORATION OF A GENERAL TREATY DEFINING AN INTERNATIONAL CRIME OF TERRORISM. INSTEAD, THE CURRENT APPROACH STRESSES THE DUTY OF NATIONS TO PROSECUTE UNDER THEIR NATIONAL LAWS OR TO EXTRADITE. THE AUTHOR CONTENDS THAT THE TERRORISM WE KNOW TODAY MAY BE THE BEGINNING OF A NEW HISTORICAL CYCLE, IN WHICH SUCH ACTS OF VIOLENCE MAY REPLACE WARS AS A CONFLICT RESOLUTION DEVICE.