Juries and the Transformation of Criminal Justice in France in the Nineteenth & Twentieth Centuries

by James M. Donovan

Book Overview

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 nation's criminal justice system.

From their introduction in 1791 as an expression of the sovereignty of the people through...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807833630
• ISBN13: 9780807833636
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"