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“The Grass That Gets Trampled When Elephants Fight”: Will The Codification Of The Crime Of Aggression Protect Women?, Beth Van Schaack

Beth Van Schaack

This article analyzes the outcome of the Kampala process with an eye toward the rarely-considered gender aspects of the crime of aggression, whether or not the provisions adopted represent an advancement for women, and how aspects of feminist theory might interpret the new regime. The Article concludes that any impact of the provisions will inevitably be limited by gaps and ambiguities in the definition of the crime and the jurisdictional regime, which is premised on state consent and exempts non-states parties altogether. At the same time, the insertion of the crime of aggression in the Rome Statute enables the prosecution …

Negotiating At The Interface Of Power & Law: The Crime Of Aggression, Beth Van Schaack

Beth Van Schaack

Negotiating at the Interface of Power & Law: The Crime of Aggression

Beth Van Schaack

Delegates from the International Criminal Court’s Assembly of States Parties, observer states, and non-governmental organizations recently convened in Kampala, Uganda, to hammer out amendments to the Court’s Statute that will lay the groundwork for the eventual prosecution of the crime of aggression. This achievement caps decades of negotiations that began in the post-World War II period. The perennial difficulty of reaching consensus on when and how to prosecute the crime of aggression stems from the recognition that the crime by its nature involves both state …

Schizophrenia, Substance Use And Aggressions: What Are The Relationships?, Rusdi Abd. Rashid, Noorzurani Robson Associate Prof. Dr., Ahmad Hatim Sulaiman, Rabaiah Salleh, Nor Zuraida Zainal, Mas Ayu Said, Mohammad Hussain Habil

Associate Prof. Dr. Noorzurani Robson

Objectives: The objective of the study is to determine the prevalence of substance abuse for alcohol, cannabis, opiates, stimulants, solvent and other substances among patients with schizophrenia in Hospital Bahagia Ulu Kinta (HBUK), Perak , Central Peninsular of Malaysia. This study also aims to determine the association of substance abuse with aggression, the demographic characteristics and total duration of hospitalization. Methods: This was a retrospective cross-sectional study whereby the first 194 subjects diagnosed to have schizophrenia based on International Classification of Disease, 10th edition (ICD-10) criteria were taken from data registry of patients admitted to HBUK from January until February …

New Developments In Developmental Research On Social Information Processing And Antisocial Behavior, Reid G. Fontaine

Reid G. Fontaine

The Special Section on developmental research on social information processing (SIP) and antisocial behavior is here introduced. Following a brief history of SIP theory, comments on several themes—measurement and assessment, attributional and interpretational style, response evaluation and decision, and the relation between emotion and SIP—that tie together four new empirical investigations are provided. Notable contributions of these studies are highlighted.