French Criminal Justice : A Comparative Account of the Investigation and Prosecution of Crime in France.

Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Title verso -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Table of Cases -- Table of Statutes, Treaties and Conventions -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- Background to the Study -- Methodology -- Understanding the French Criminal Process -- 2. Recent Legislative Trends -- The Strengthening of Due Process Protections -- The Return to Repression -- 3. Police, Prosecutors and Judges -- The Judicial Function -- The Policing Function -- 4. Defence Rights and the Role of the Defence Lawyer -- The Defence Lawyer as Adversarial Player -- The French Avocat as Professional Outsider -- The Evolving Pre-Trial Role of the Criminal Defence Lawyer -- The Avocat as Auxiliary to the Magistrat -- The Defence Role During the Garde à Vue -- 5. Judicial Supervision of the Garde à Vue -- The Legal Framework Regulating the Garde à Vue -- Understanding Supervision in Practice -- The Importance of Trust: The GAV as Police Business on Police Territory -- Typological Models of Supervision -- The Ideology of Supervision -- 6. Inside the Police Station -- Miscarriages of Justice -- Police Accountability to Magistrats -- Inside the Garde à Vue -- Investigations Under Commission Rogatoire -- 7. Instruction and Prosecution -- The Instruction -- The Prosecution -- 8. Concluding Remarks -- Appendices -- Appendix A: Glossary of French Legal Terma and Organisations -- Appendix B: Chronology of French Political Administrations -- Appendix C: Data Sources -- Bibliography -- Index.

This book explains how an inquisitorially rooted criminal process operates and the factors that influence its development and functioning.

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