Political Justice: The Use of Legal Procedure for Political Ends

by Otto Kirchheimer

Book Overview

How have regimes used the agencies of criminal justice for their own purposes? What characterizes the linkage of politics and justice? Drawing on a wealth of foreign and domestic source material, Otto Kirchheimer examines systematically the structure of state protection, the nature of a strictly "political" trial, including the trial by fiat of the successor regime, and the forms of legal repression that states have used against political organizations...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069164943X
• ISBN13: 9780691649436
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 468 Pages
• Weight: 1.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"