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The Persecution of Children as a Crime Against Humanity

The Case for the Prosecution

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  • © 2021

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Authors:
  1. Sonja C. Grover

    1. Lakehead University Faculty of Education, Thunder Bay, Canada

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  • Fills a gap in the scholarly legal literature with regard to the international crime of age-based persecution of children as a crime against humanity
  • Applies the legal theory/reasoning analyzed in the book in the context of the discussion of various international criminal court cases
  • Aimed at international criminal law postgraduates, researchers, academics and practitioners

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    • Sonja C. Grover
    Pages 1-6

  3. International Atrocity Crimes Targeting Children and Lacunae in Charging Under International Criminal Law

    • Sonja C. Grover
    Pages 7-40

  4. Age-Based Persecution Targeting Children

    • Sonja C. Grover
    Pages 41-89

  5. The Persecution of Children In Connection With Genocide

    • Sonja C. Grover
    Pages 91-124

  6. The Persecution of Children in Connection with Crimes Against Humanity

    • Sonja C. Grover
    Pages 125-161

  7. The Persecution of Children in Connection with War Crimes: Selected Exemplars

    • Sonja C. Grover
    Pages 163-196

  8. Concluding Remarks: The Persecution of Children as a Distinct Rome Statute Prosecutable Crime Against Humanity

    • Sonja C. Grover
    Pages 197-210
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This book addresses age-based persecution of children as a crime against humanity in connection with genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes (persecution - with some variation in the elements of the crime - is an existing offence under the Rome Statute of the permanent International Criminal Court, the statutes of various international criminal tribunals i.e. International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and under the statutes of other international criminal courts (i.e. the  Special Court of Sierra Leone)). The book introduces a completely original concept in international criminal law, however, in discussing age-based persecution of children as an international crime against humanity where (i) the particular discrete child collective is targeted ‘as such’ for international atrocity crimes or (ii) individual children are targeted based on their age-based group identity as it intersects with other perpetrator – targeted characteristics such as gender, ethnicity, religion etc.


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  • Lakehead University Faculty of Education, Thunder Bay, Canada

    Sonja C. Grover

About the author

Dr. Sonja Grover is a Full Professor with the Faculty of Education, Lakehead University in Canada who has published extensively in the area of international law

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