Political Justice

The Use of Legal Procedure for Political Ends

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Political Justice

The Use of Legal Procedure for Political Ends

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 and clemency. This study of the uneasy balance between abstract justice and political expediency is a contribution to constitutional and criminal law, political science, and social psychology.

Originally published in 1961.

(Source: Princeton University Press)

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1961, Princeton University Press
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Princeton, N.J

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Dewey Decimal Class
320.15
Library of Congress
LAW <General Kirc 1961>, K487.P65 K57 1961

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452 p.
Number of pages
452

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OL5821213M
Internet Archive
politicaljustice0000kirc
LCCN
61007418
OCLC/WorldCat
191143
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4560451

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