Political Justice – The Use of Legal Procedure for Political Ends: 2303 (Princeton Legacy Library, 2303) - Hardcover

Kirchheimer, Otto

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 069164943X ISBN 13: 9780691649436

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 2017

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 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. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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About the Author:

Otto Kirchheimer was professor at of political science at American University, Howard University, the New School of Social Research, and Columbia University, and was the author of "Political Justice: The Use of Legal Procedures for Political Ends".

About this edition

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 069164943X
• ISBN 13: 9780691649436
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 468