Michel Porret, Le crime et ses circonstances. De l'esprit de l'arbitraire au siècle des lumières selon les réquisitoires des procureurs-généraux de Genève
This is a book about discretionary justice. How anodyne and beneficent that sounds ! Andindeed Michel Porret thinks there is a good deal to be said for it. Having devoted some years to poring over thousands of pages of the conclusions of the procurator-general of the republic of Geneva in criminal...
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Crime, Histoire & Sociétés
2009
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| גישה מקוונת: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| סיכום: | This is a book about discretionary justice. How anodyne and beneficent that sounds ! Andindeed Michel Porret thinks there is a good deal to be said for it. Having devoted some years to poring over thousands of pages of the conclusions of the procurator-general of the republic of Geneva in criminal cases between 1738 and 1792, he bas been convinced that the Gilbertian principle of making the punishment fit the crime worked reasonably effectively. The chief prosecutors of this tiny but much ob... |
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