Popular Justice in Europe (18th-19th Centuries)
Pubb. online: 2017
Isbn ed.dig.: 978-88-15-33281-3
DOI: 10.978.8815/332813
Isbn ed.dig.: 978-88-15-33281-3
DOI: 10.978.8815/332813
Indice
- Introduction
- I. JUSTICES OF THE PEACE
- The «Juges de Paix» of Napoleonic Europe
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The «juges de paix» in the rural world
- 3. Conciliation: Arbitration and the vestiges of popular justice in an authoritarian regime
- 4. The problems of popularity: the «Juges de Paix» as Policing authorities
- 5. Conclusion
- Popular Justice in Europe. The Justice of the Peace, a «popular» French Magistracy in the Kingdom of Naples
- 1. Popular justice in the Kingdom of Naples
- 2. Interaction of popular justice throughout Napoleonic Europe
- 3. «Juges de paix» and the search for democracy during the Napoleonic era
- 4. Was the justice of the peace a popular judge?
- 5. Justices of the peace: creators of social dialogue
- 6. Popular judges and new elites
- 7. The practice of law as a heuristic issue
- 8. Career judges or local justices of the peace?
- II. «JURÉS» AND LAYMEN
- The Criminal Jury in England and France in the Late 18th Century. Historiographical Issues and Research Perspectives of Popular Justice
- «Le fruit du terroir?». The Debate on Trial by Jury in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands (1814-1831)
- 1. Introduction
- 2. King William and the abolition of trial by jury in the Netherlands
- 3. The Prussian jury debate and the discussions on trial by jury in the Northern Netherlands
- 4. The reception of the French discussions on trial by jury in the Southern Netherlands
- 5. The reception of the French discussions of trial by jury in the Northern Netherlands
- 6. The Southern opposition and the parliamentary rejection of trial by jury
- 7. Conclusion: «Le fruit du terroir?»
- Introducing the Participation of Laymen into the Judicial System of 19th-Century Germany The Example of Bavaria
- I. Introduction
- II. The law on the introduction of «Schwurgerichte»
- III. The procedure of the «Schwurgericht»
- IV. Conclusions and perspectives
- III. PRACTICES OF POPULAR JUSTICE
- «Left to the Mercy of the Mob». Ducking, Popular Justice, and the Magistrates in Britain (1750-1890)
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The pre-1750 roots of ducking as an informal punishment
- 3. The types of offense resulting in ducking 1750-1800
- 4. The core characteristics
- 5. The attitudes of the authorities and problems of the 1790s
- 6. Ducking in the 19th century: form and uses
- 7. Ducking and the New Police
- 8. Ducking and 19th-century criminal justice
- 9. Conclusion
- «Rügegerichte» as Popular Justice
- I. Introduction
- II. Popular justice
- III. Different examples of German local courts
- IV. The «Rügegerichte»
- V. What happened to the Rügegerichte in the «Sattelzeit»?
- VI. Popular justice?
- Further Reading and Resources
- Index