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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



Table of Contents
*Frontmatter, pg. i*PREFACE, pg. vii*CONTENTS, pg. xi*CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION, pg. 1*CHAPTER II. CHANGES IN THE STRUCTURE OF STATE PROTECTION, pg. 25*CHAPTER III. THE POLITICAL TRIAL, pg. 46*CHAPTER IV. LEGAL REPRESSION OF POLITICAL ORGANIZATIONS, pg. 119*CHAPTER V. CONDITIONS OF JUDICIAL ACTION, pg. 173*CHAPTER VI. THE DEFENDANT, HIS LAWYER, AND THE COURT, pg. 225*CHAPTER VII. "DEMOCRATIC CENTRALISM" AND POLITICAL INTEGRATION OF THE JUDICIARY, pg. 259*CHAPTER VIII. TRIAL BY FIAT OF THE SUCCESSOR REGIME, pg. 304*CHAPTER IX. ASYLUM, pg. 349*CHAPTER X. THE QUALITY OF MERCY, pg. 389*CHAPTER XI. SUMMING UP, pg. 419*APPENDIX A. THE ROMAN EMPIRE AND THE CHRISTIANS, pg. 433*APPENDIX B. GUILLAUME DU VAIR: THE CASE OF T H E SUCCESSFUL LOYALTY SHIFT, pg. 434*INDEX, pg. 437

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      Publisher: Princeton University Press
      Publication Date: 08/12/2015
      ISBN13: 9780691622675, 978-0691622675
      ISBN10: 0691622671
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      Book Synopsis

      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



      Table of Contents
      *Frontmatter, pg. i*PREFACE, pg. vii*CONTENTS, pg. xi*CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION, pg. 1*CHAPTER II. CHANGES IN THE STRUCTURE OF STATE PROTECTION, pg. 25*CHAPTER III. THE POLITICAL TRIAL, pg. 46*CHAPTER IV. LEGAL REPRESSION OF POLITICAL ORGANIZATIONS, pg. 119*CHAPTER V. CONDITIONS OF JUDICIAL ACTION, pg. 173*CHAPTER VI. THE DEFENDANT, HIS LAWYER, AND THE COURT, pg. 225*CHAPTER VII. "DEMOCRATIC CENTRALISM" AND POLITICAL INTEGRATION OF THE JUDICIARY, pg. 259*CHAPTER VIII. TRIAL BY FIAT OF THE SUCCESSOR REGIME, pg. 304*CHAPTER IX. ASYLUM, pg. 349*CHAPTER X. THE QUALITY OF MERCY, pg. 389*CHAPTER XI. SUMMING UP, pg. 419*APPENDIX A. THE ROMAN EMPIRE AND THE CHRISTIANS, pg. 433*APPENDIX B. GUILLAUME DU VAIR: THE CASE OF T H E SUCCESSFUL LOYALTY SHIFT, pg. 434*INDEX, pg. 437

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