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Political Justice: The Use of Legal Procedure for Political Ends
Otto Kirchheimer
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Description for Political Justice: The Use of Legal Procedure for Political Ends
paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 468 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 628.
How have regimes used the agencies of criminal justice for their own purposes? What characterizes the linkage of politics and justice? Drawing on a wealth of foreign and domestic source material, Otto Kirchheimer examines systematically the structure of state protection, the nature of a strictly "political" trial, including the trial by fiat of the successor regime, and the forms of legal repression that states have used against political organizations. He analyzes the Nuremberg trials, the Communist purge trials, and a number of Smith Act trials. In two highly original chapters he also explores the political and judicial nature of asylum ... Read more
How have regimes used the agencies of criminal justice for their own purposes? What characterizes the linkage of politics and justice? Drawing on a wealth of foreign and domestic source material, Otto Kirchheimer examines systematically the structure of state protection, the nature of a strictly "political" trial, including the trial by fiat of the successor regime, and the forms of legal repression that states have used against political organizations. He analyzes the Nuremberg trials, the Communist purge trials, and a number of Smith Act trials. In two highly original chapters he also explores the political and judicial nature of asylum ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
468
Condition
New
Series
Princeton Legacy Library
Number of Pages
468
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691622675
SKU
V9780691622675
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