| Titre | De la difficulté de faire un citoyen : Les «acquittements scandaleux» du jury dans la France provinciale du début du XIXe siècle | |
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| Auteur | Elisabeth Claverie | |
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Revue | Etudes rurales |
| Numéro | no 95-96, 1984 La violence | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Ethnographie de la violence |
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| Page | 143-166 | |
| Résumé anglais |
The Making of Citizenship : the «Scandalous» Verdicts of not Guilty brought by the Jury in Early 19th Century France
The trial proceedings set in the penal code of 1811 still valid today, although currently undergoing transformations, required a jury who, alone, had to decide of the guilt or innocence of the culprit in the Assize court, the judges being responsible for the sentence. According to the 19th century judges, the jury members tended to acquit too easily because they were linked to the culprit by the same representation — varying according to the area — of what is and what is not an offence. We can observe then on the judicial scene, a tension parallel to the one we see at the same period (after the Revolution) on the political scene between the particular — or particularist — interests and the general interest, this tension is expressed here by varying verdicts given by provincial law courts, and the legislator's will, to impose a unique and overall measure of equity on the national level. Thus, through the role of the jury is defined the central question in 19th century France : representativity. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/rural_0014-2182_1984_num_95_1_3024 |
