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Author Donovan, James M. (James Michael), 1948-

Title Juries and the transformation of criminal justice in France in the nineteenth & twentieth centuries / James M. Donovan
Published Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 262 pages)
Series Studies in legal history
Studies in legal history.
Contents 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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-245) and index
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Subject Jury -- France -- History
Criminal procedure -- France -- History
Criminal justice, Administration of -- France -- History
LAW -- Criminal Law -- General.
Criminal justice, Administration of
Criminal procedure
Jury
European history.
Law.
France
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780807895771
0807895776
9781469604404
146960440X
0807833630
9780807833636
Other Titles Juries and the transformation of criminal justice in France in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries