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Jul 1, 2019 · Summary. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the verb ‘to instigate’ means ‘ [t]o spur, urge on; to stir up, stimulate, incite, goad (now mostly to do something evil)’ or ‘ [t]o bring about by incitement or persuasion; to stir up, foment, provoke’.
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INSTIGATION. The act by which one incites another to do something, as to injure a third person, or to commit some crime or misdemeanor, to commence a suit or to prosecute a criminal. Vide Accomplice.
The author critically analyses in this article the status of incitement in international criminal law and recommends the adoption of an approach modelled on German and Swiss domestic law and argues that instigation per se should also be regarded as an inchoate crime.
Before proceeding, it is necessary to have at least a working definition of "instigation." Archbold, in his classic treatise on international criminal law, defines "instigating" as "urging, encouraging, or prompting another person to commit a crime."19 The ICTR Trial Chamber.
Instigation is the means by which the accused is lured into the commission of the offense charged in order to prosecute him. On the other hand, entrapment is the employment of such ways and means for the purpose of trapping or capturing a lawbreaker.
Jul 19, 2017 · The essence of the law of incitement is that a person (the “inciter”) urges another person or persons (the “incitee (s)”) to commit a criminal offence.
The Appeals Chamber recalls that the mens rea for instigating is established where the perpetrator acts with either direct intent to prompt another to commit a crime, or with awareness of the substantial likelihood that a crime will be committed in execution of that instigation. [1]
