John Prendergast, who has worked in African conflict zones for 25 years, explains: "The rule of law breaks down and perpetrators commit crimes without fear of conviction or punishment.
The word may seem appropriate when the perpetrators commit suicide in order to carry out their attacks, but it is misleading: terrorism is a horribly calculated attempt to use violence to help achieve an objective.
The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court has since established both genocide and crimes against humanity as punishable crimes regardless of whether the perpetrators commit such crimes internally or externally.
Colleges typically determine guilt based on the civil "preponderance of the evidence" standard, meaning it is more likely than not that the perpetrator committed the crime, rather than the far tougher "beyond a reasonable doubt" standard, which is used in criminal courts.
Remember, image is everything!" As thinking women, we can often be accused of seeking out offence; of spotting sexism where the perpetrator committed merely foolishness; of bringing everything back to gender like a dog dragging a stick through a muddy ditch.
As the Netherlands does not have plea-bargaining, we therefore assume for all cases we selected that the perpetrator committed the sexual abuse against the victim.
The perpetrator committed the same crime some years before, and was imprisoned for it.
Even if a perpetrator committed a violent crime, police may not use deadly force once the suspect ceases to be a threat.
On July 22 , 2011 a single perpetrator committed two terrorist attacks in Norway.
We include cases based on their legal outcomes – a verdict of murder or manslaughter – with one exception: cases described as intimate partner homicide in which the perpetrator committed suicide before the verdict (often directly after the homicide) are also included.
