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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Donovan, James M. (James Michael), 1948-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, ©2010.
Colección:Studies in legal history.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The "palladium of liberty" : juries, the revolution, and Napoleon, 1791-1814
  • The "jurys censitaires," 1815-1848
  • The great turning point : the juries of the Second Republic and Second Empire, 1848-1870
  • The juries of the Republic, 1870-1914
  • The campaign against the juries, circa 1890-1914
  • The triumph of experts over jurors : justice in France since World War I.