The Privilege Against Self-Incrimination: Its Origins and Development

by John H. Langbein, Charles M. Gray, R.H. Helmholz

Challenging the accounts of John Henry Wigmore and Leonard W. Levy, this history of the privilege against self-incrimination demonstrates that what has sometimes been taken to be an unchanging tenet of our legal system has actually encompassed many different legal consequences in a history that reaches back to the Middle Ages.

Each chapter of this definitive study uncovers what the privilege meant in practice. The authors trace the privilege...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226326608
• ISBN13: 9780226326603
• Release Date: June 1997
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"