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31 U.S.F. Mar. L.J. 19 (2018-2019)
Stemming the Tide of Crime: Navigating the Piracy Regime on International Waters

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Stemming the Tide of Crime: Navigating the

Piracy Regime on International Waters


                  PRAGYA SINGH & SHASHWAT SINGH


I.INTRODUCTION       ................................................. 19
II.A BRIEF HISTORY...........................................21
III.DEFINITIONAL CHALLENGES        ...............  ..................22
      A.  Any illegal acts of violence or detention, ......  ..........22
      or any act of depredation     ............    ..................22
      B.  Committed for private ends.........................23
      C.  By the crew or the passengers of a private ship....................25
      or a private aircraft..................................25
      D.  Directed against another ship or aircraft, or against persons....25
      or property on board such ship or aircraft...................25
      E.  On the high seas or in a place outside the............................26
      jurisdiction  of any  State............................................................... 26
IV.INCHOATE OFFENCES ASSOCIATED WITH PIRACY         .....   ...............26
V.DEFINITION OF PIRATE SHIP .........................27
VI.JURISDICTION.............................................27
VII.PROSECUTION AND INCARCERATION         ...................  .....31
VIII. ASPECTS OF HUMAN RIGHTS    ................................33
      A. Inapplicability of International Humanitarian Law (IHL) ........33
      B. General safeguards ...............................34
      C. Human  rights law        ................................ 34
  IX. CONCLUSION........................................ 35


                        I. INTRODUCTION
         You don't need a peg leg or an eye patch [to be a pirate].

    Piracy, as a global phenomenon, has gained traction over the past few
decades, be it due to recent happenings along the Somalian coast or by way
of fictional characters and popular culture. Before one can truly delve into



    1. Inst. of Cetacean Research v. Sea Shepherd Conservation Soc'y, 725 F.3d 940, 940 (9th
Cir. 2013).

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