RT Article
T1 Suspicious minds? Empirical analysis of insider witness assessments at the ICTY, ICTR and ICC
JF European journal of criminology
VO 20
IS 1
SP 185
OP 207
A1 Chlevickaitė, Gabrielė
A1 Holá, Barbora
A1 Bijleveld, Catrien
A2 Holá, Barbora
A2 Bijleveld, Catrien
LA English
YR 2023
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1839930276
AB The testimonies of insider witnesses are often key to prosecutions of international crimes, despite significant trustworthiness concerns. However, we know little about the practice of judicial assessments of insider testimonies, that is, which factors the judges consider relevant to relying on insider testimony. With this article, we set out to provide a comprehensive, explorative examination of the insider witness assessment factors used by the trial judges at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the International Criminal Court in 1996?2019. By using multiple correspondence analysis, we show that the factors related to insider witness assessment outcomes are generally similar across the tribunals and tend to focus on the contents of the testimonies, with less attention given to credibility or competence concerns. This research constitutes the first systematic quantitative analysis and cross-institutional comparison of insider witness assessment practice at an international level.
K1 ICC
K1 ICTR
K1 ICTY
K1 International criminal justice
K1 witness testimony
DO 10.1177/1477370821997343