Screen LibraryPre-trial detention in 20th and 21st century common law and civil law systems /
Pre-trial detention refers to the period when a person, after being arrested, is detained so as to determine the nature of the offences and the characterization of the charges. This notion is part and parcel of the legal proceedings of a criminal investigation and aims at striking a fragile balance...
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Cambridge Scholars Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : |
| Publication Dates: | 2014. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
Pre-trial detention refers to the period when a person, after being arrested, is detained so as to determine the nature of the offences and the characterization of the charges. This notion is part and parcel of the legal proceedings of a criminal investigation and aims at striking a fragile balance between protecting the State and respecting individual freedoms. Lots of examples can be quoted to illustrate the various pre-trial detention modalities in common law and civil law traditions, incl ... |
| Carrier Form: | vi, 247 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: |
9781443859912 (hardback) : 1443859915 |
| Index Number: | K5437 |
| CLC: | D998.2 |
| Call Number: | D998.2/P922 |
| Contents: |
The politics of pre-trial detention in the United Kingdom since 2000 / Preventative interventions and the right to protest / Habeas, Hamdan and history : separation of powers and pretrial detention in Guantanamo Bay / Crime and punishment in the 20th century Brazilian war navy : the punishment of rebellious and insubordinate seamen (the 1920 Revolt and the 1964 Rebellion) / The right to a lawyer: the first of the Europeanisation of procedural guarantees in pre-trial detention / Police custody in |