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Political Justice: The Use of Legal Procedure for Political Ends

Hardback

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:Hardback
Pages:468
Dimensions(mm): Height 235,Width 152
ISBN/Barcode 9780691649436
ClassificationsDewey:320.011
Audience
Tertiary Education (US: College)
Professional & Vocational

Publishing Details

Publisher Princeton University Press
Imprint Princeton University Press
Publication Date 19 April 2016
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