Donovan Juries And The Transformation Of Criminal Justice In France In The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries 9781469622187

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Автор: Donovan
Название: Juries And The Transformation Of Criminal Justice In France In The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries
ISBN: 9781469622187
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
Классификация:

История Европы

История государства и права

ISBN-10: 1469622181
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 272
Вес: 0.43 кг.
Дата издания: 30.12.2014
Серия: Studies in legal history
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: Black & white illustrations
Размер: 234 x 156 x 16
Читательская аудитория: Professional and scholarly
Ключевые слова: European history,Legal history
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: James Donovan takes a comprehensive approach to the history of the jury in modern France by investigating the legal, political, sociocultural, and intellectual aspects of jury trial from the Revolution through the twentieth century. He demonstrates that these juries, through their decisions, helped shape reform of the nations criminal justice system.From their introduction in 1791 as an expression of the sovereignty of the people through the early 1900s, argues Donovan, juries often acted against the wishes of the political and judicial authorities, despite repeated governmental attempts to manipulate their composition. High acquittal rates for both political and nonpolitical crimes were in part due to juror resistance to the harsh and rigid punishments imposed by the Napoleonic Penal Code, Donovan explains. In response, legislators gradually enacted laws to lower penalties for certain crimes and to give jurors legal means to offer nuanced verdicts and to ameliorate punishments. Faced with persistently high acquittal rates, however, governments eventually took powers away from juries by withdrawing many cases from their purview and ultimately destroying the panels independence in 1941.

Juries And The Transformation Of Criminal Justice In France In The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries, Donovan