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Any work that deals with criminal actions and social situations will have to, at some point, get down to the task of looking at real-world examples. Accordingly, we shall focus on two examples: (1) war crimes, concentrating especially upon crimes of the Nazis, notably the SS-Einsatzgruppen Trial, and (2) membership of illegal, or criminal, organisations, in other words those proscribed by law, but more particularly those organisations which assume responsibility, in group offending cases, where individual responsibility ends. We shall look at terrorist groups and the SS-Einsatzgruppen, by way of an example. The model for these two examples, in terms of collective intentional action, will follow on from Sanchez-Brigado who advanced the following model:
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each conceives of a state of affairs the bringing about of which involves, or is constituted by, the performance of certain actions (and the display of certain attitudes) by all members of the set;
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their conceptions of this state of affairs overlap;
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each intends to perform these actions (and attitudes) as related in the way described to the state of affairs;
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and each executes his or her intention, such that the state of affairs mentioned in (b) obtains (Sanchez-Brigado 2010, 85).
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Amatrudo, A. (2018). Real-Life Cases: War Criminal Prosecutions and the Treatment of Membership of Illegal Organisations. In: Criminal Actions and Social Situations. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-45731-8_5
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