Incitement on Trial: Prosecuting International Speech Crimes
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International
and national armed conflicts are usually preceded by a media campaign
in which public figures foment ethnic, national, racial or religious
hatred, inciting listeners to acts of violence. Incitement on Trial
evaluates the efforts of international criminal tribunals to hold such
inciters criminally responsible. This is an unsettled area of
international criminal law, and prosecutors have often struggled to
demonstrate a causal connection between speech acts and subsequent
crimes. This book identifies 'revenge speech' as the type of rhetoric
with the greatest effects on empathy and tolerance for violence. Wilson
argues that inciting speech should be handled under the preventative
doctrine of inchoate crimes, but that once international crimes have
been committed, then ordering and complicity are the most appropriate
forms of criminal liability. Based in extensive original research, this
book proposes an evidence-based risk assessment model for monitoring
political speech.
