The doctrine of joint criminal action in the ad hoc tribunals and its scope in the Rome Statute

• Main Author: Miren Odriozola-Gurrutxaga
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universidad del Rosario 2014-03-01
• Series: Anuario Iberoamericano de Derecho Internacional Penal
• Subjects: Corte Penal Internacional; modos de intervención criminal punible; Artículo 25 (3) (d) ER; empresa criminal conjunta; teoría del dominio del hecho
• Online Access: http://revistas.urosario.edu.co/index.php/anidip/article/view/2861

The first judgment of the International Criminal Court has confirmed that article 25 (3) of the Rome Statute adopts the theory of control of the act to distinguish between principals and accessories. On the contrary, since 2003, the ad hoc tribunals’ case law bases the notion of co-perpetration on the Joint Criminal Enterprise doctrine, using a subjective criterion approach. In this article we will first analyze the problems raised by that case law of the ad hoc tribunals, and then, we will study the article of the Rome Statute which apparently most resembles the Joint Criminal Enterprise doctrine: article 25 (3) (d). The article concludes that none of the three categories of that doctrine is included in the said provision.