TY  - BOOK
AU  - Donovan,James M.
TI  - Juries and the transformation of criminal justice in France in the nineteenth & twentieth centuries
T2  - Studies in legal history
SN  - 9781469604404
AV  - KJV8800 .D66 2010
U1  - 345.44075 23
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Chapel Hill, N.C.
PB  - University of North Carolina Press
KW  - Jury
KW  - France
KW  - History
KW  - Criminal procedure
KW  - Criminal justice, Administration of
KW  - Law
KW  - ukslc
KW  - European history
KW  - thema
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized
N2  - Donovan takes a comprehensive approach to the history of the jury in modern France by investigating the legal, political, socio-cultural, and intellectual aspects of jury trial from the Revolution to the 20th century. He demonstrates that, through their decisions, these juries helped shape reform of the nation's criminal justice system. He argues that from their introduction in 1791 as an expression of the sovereignty of the people up to the early 1900s, juries often acted against the wishes of the political and judicial authorities, despite repeated governmental attempts to manipulate their composition
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/9780807895771_donovan
ER  -