Torture and the Law of Proof Europe and England in the Ancien Rgime

Name: Torture and the Law of Proof Europe and England in the Ancien Rgime
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ISBN: 9780226468945

ISBN-10: 0226468941

ISBN-13: 9780226468945

Edition: 2006

Authors: John H. Langbein

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In Torture and the Law of Proof John H. Langbein explores the world of the thumbscrew and the rack, engines of torture authorized for investigating crime in European legal systems from medieval times until well into the eighteenth century. Drawing on juristic literature and legal records, Langbein's book, first published in 1977, remains the definitive account of how European legal systems became dependent on the use of torture in their routine criminal procedures, and how they eventually worked themselves free of it. The book has recently taken on an eerie relevance as a consequence of controversial American and British interrogation practices in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. In a new…

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List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 8/15/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 0.57" wide x 0.85" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English



Preface to the Paperback Edition


Preface



Europe Judicial Torture



Torture and the Law of Proof


The Jurisprudence of Torture


The Origins of Judicial Torture


The Classical Critique of Judicial Torture


Abolition and the Fairy Tale



The Law of Torture



Torturing the Convicted



The Transformation of Criminal Sanctions


The Blood Sanctions


Medieval Imprisonment


The Galley Sentence


The Workhouse


Imprisonment


Transportation


Europe and England



The Revolution in the Law of Proof


Poena extraordinaria


Punishment without Full Proof


Carolina to Theresiana


The New Law of Proof in France


Why Poena Extraordinaria?



The Abolition of Judicial Torture


The Abolition Legislation


The Abolition Legend



England The Century of Torture 1540-1640



The Torture-Free Law of Proof


Peine Forte et Dure


The Jury Standard of Proof


Public Prosecution under the Tudors



The Torture Warrants 1540-1640


The Gerard Warrant


Venue


Modes of Torture


Commissioners to Torture


Preconditions for Torture


The Purposes of Torture


The Table of Warrants



The Theory of Torture


The Prerogative?


The Reception?


The End of Torture


Abbreviations


Notes


Index