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Juries and the transformation of criminal justice in France in the nineteenth & twentieth centuries /
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 20th century. Challenging the contention of modern historians that the generally bourgeois j...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill, N.C. :
University of North Carolina Press,
©2010.
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| Colección: | Studies in legal history.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 20th century. Challenging the contention of modern historians that the generally bourgeois jurors of 19th-century France usually rendered verdicts in keeping with class justice, Donovan demonstrates that these juries, through their decisions, helped shape reform of the nation's criminal justice system. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 262 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-245) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780807895771 0807895776 9781469604404 146960440X 0807833630 9780807833636 |