Author: Louis ProalPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
Passion and Criminality in France
Author: Louis ProalPassion and Criminality in France
Author: Louis ProalPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781330296493
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 714
Book Description
Excerpt from Passion and Criminality in France: A Legal and Literary Study Few more important Works have been published of late years than Louis Proal's Passion and Criminality. It is a book that appeals at one and the same time to the specialist in Psychology, Ethics, Criminology and Insanity, and to the general reader. M. Proal is a well-known authority on all questions connected with Crime, its causes and motives, its various forms and manifestations, its frequency and distribution, and its proper punishment, and the author of other valuable and interesting works, throwing light on these vitally important subjects. He holds a high position in the legal profession in France, being one of the Presiding Judges at a French Court of Appeal, and having previously held very responsible official and judicial appointments in other parts of the Country, especially in the South. All this has afforded M. Proal unrivalled opportunities of observation; and indeed the most cursory glance through his books must show what an enormous mass of invaluable information he has gleaned from many different sources - from cases in which he has acted as Advocate or Prosecutor, or presided as Judge, from confidences made to him as Juge d'Instruction, from Reports of Criminal Trials, from Official Records of Suicides, etc., etc. Moreover, this wealth of detail is marshalled in the most admirable order, each argument adduced and each conclusion arrived at being supported by a series of apposite facts in illustration, the whole set forth in that clearly ordered and lucid style that seems the birthright of every educated Frenchman. Passion and Criminality is a truly wonderful book. No doubt the reading is often sad and painful, but it is never dull. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Passion and Criminality in France
Author: Louis ProalPassion and criminality in France
Author: Louis ProalPassion and Criminality in France
Author: Louis ProalPassion and Criminality in France
Author: Louis ProalPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780656488810
Category : Criminals
Languages : en
Pages : 714
Book Description
Excerpt from Passion and Criminality in France: A Legal and Literary Study G'uy de Maupassant, Zola himself. At the same time our Author's own personal bias in favour of the more correct and academical writers of the earlier period, as against the morbid, anaemic, hysterical - to use some of his own epithets - Novels, Plays and Poems of the Romantic School, is evident enough. All the Works originating in the impulse of the Romantic revival of 1830 and onwards, he clearly regards as without ex ception showing more or less manifest traces of nervous derangement and diseased mental conditions on the part of their authors. Any way the literary aspect of the book is far from being the least attractive and suggestive. M. Proal's discussion of Wert/zer in particular and other books, such as jean Jacques Rousseau's, of the same period and tendency, in their bearing on suicide, being profoundly interesting, and, indeed, a masterpiece of its kind. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Le crime et le suicide passionnels. Passion and criminality in France. A legal and literary study ... Translated from the French by A. R. Allinson
Author: Louis PROALCrimes of Passion
Author: Joëlle GuillaisPublisher: Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN: 9780745606415
Category : Adultery
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Juries and the Transformation of Criminal Justice in France in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Author: James M. DonovanPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807895776
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
James Donovan takes a comprehensive approach to the history of the jury in modern France by investigating the legal, political, sociocultural, and intellectual aspects of jury trial from the Revolution through the twentieth century. He demonstrates that these juries, through their decisions, helped shape reform of the nation's criminal justice system. From their introduction in 1791 as an expression of the sovereignty of the people through the early 1900s, argues Donovan, juries often acted against the wishes of the political and judicial authorities, despite repeated governmental attempts to manipulate their composition. High acquittal rates for both political and nonpolitical crimes were in part due to juror resistance to the harsh and rigid punishments imposed by the Napoleonic Penal Code, Donovan explains. In response, legislators gradually enacted laws to lower penalties for certain crimes and to give jurors legal means to offer nuanced verdicts and to ameliorate punishments. Faced with persistently high acquittal rates, however, governments eventually took powers away from juries by withdrawing many cases from their purview and ultimately destroying the panels' independence in 1941.
Author: Louis Proal