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Political Justice: The Use of Legal Procedure for Political Ends

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Political Justice: The Use of Legal Procedure for Political Ends
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Otto Kirchheimer
SeriesPrinceton Legacy Library
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:468
Dimensions(mm): Height 235,Width 152
ISBN/Barcode 9780691622675
ClassificationsDewey:320.011
Audience
Tertiary Education (US: College)
Professional & Vocational

Publishing Details

Publisher Princeton University Press
Imprint Princeton University Press
Publication Date 8 December 2015
Publication Country United States

Description

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