La naissance des maisons de justice sous la Révolution française

Little known institutions, the maisons de justice were instituted by the first French constitution of 3 September 1791. In the penal chain, they were situated between the maisons d’arrêt and the prisons and had the function of locking up those accused of crimes while awaiting trial. In line with the...

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Main Author: Emmanuel Berger
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Language:English
Published: Criminocorpus 2023-09-01
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/criminocorpus/13469
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description Little known institutions, the maisons de justice were instituted by the first French constitution of 3 September 1791. In the penal chain, they were situated between the maisons d’arrêt and the prisons and had the function of locking up those accused of crimes while awaiting trial. In line with the ideal of defending liberties, the Constituents wanted to limit the length of deprivation of liberty of presumed innocent individuals by imposing a number of forms and time limits. In the absence of a study on the subject, it was necessary to compare detention practices in the maisons de justice with the legal standards protecting the rights of the accused. In view of the first results obtained, the situation encountered in the houses of justice is significantly different from the liberticidal representations generally conveyed about the revolutionary conciergeries.
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La naissance des maisons de justice sous la Révolution française
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title La naissance des maisons de justice sous la Révolution française
title_full La naissance des maisons de justice sous la Révolution française
title_fullStr La naissance des maisons de justice sous la Révolution française
title_full_unstemmed La naissance des maisons de justice sous la Révolution française
title_short La naissance des maisons de justice sous la Révolution française
title_sort la naissance des maisons de justice sous la revolution francaise
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detention
maisons de justice
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