Political trials take issues of responsibility, conscience, representation, and legitimacy, which are tied in tight political and legal knots, and force us to face questions about our public identity, our standards for public policy, and our sense of history. Ron Christenson explores how political trials, especially those within the rule of law, engage society's conflicting values and loyalties. He examines numerous political trials throughout history, bringing into question basic foundations of law, politics, and society. Christenson classifies political trials according to the issues they...
Political trials take issues of responsibility, conscience, representation, and legitimacy, which are tied in tight political and legal knots, and for...
Roscoe Pound believed that unless the criminal justice system maintains stability while adapting to change, it will either fossilize or be subject to the whims of public opinion. In Criminal Justice in America, Pound recognizes the dangers law faces when it does not keep pace with societal change. When the home, neighborhood, and religion are no longer capable of social control, increased conflicts arise, laws proliferate, and new menaces wrought by technology, drugs, and juvenile delinquency flourish. Where Pound saw the influence of the motion pictures as part of the...
Roscoe Pound believed that unless the criminal justice system maintains stability while adapting to change, it will either fossilize or be subject...
Second edition of a book which examines several political trials throughout history, questioning the basic foundations of law, politics and society.
Second edition of a book which examines several political trials throughout history, questioning the basic foundations of law, politics and society.
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