Chapter 2: | Conceptual Issues in Definitions of Corruption and Good Governance |
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In addition to situations involving international crimes, international law recognises, with some dispute, the possibility of passive personal jurisdiction to apply to criminal law.87 Perritt argues that this basis allows a nation to prosecute anyone committing a crime against one of that nation’s citizens, regardless of where the crime was committed.88 According to Perritt,
Extraterritorial application of criminal law by multiple nations has some advantages, at least when the substantive criminal law being applied extraterritorially is more or less the same.90 According to Perritt, concurrent jurisdiction had the considerable virtue of permitting any nation catching an offender to act on his or her wrongs—without resolving the fine points of a theory of exclusive jurisdiction and without facing the political, moral and legal concerns of aiding a foreign system of justice.91