Prosecuting Crime in the Renaissance; England, Germany, France by Langbein, John H

Cambridge: Harvard University Press [0-674-71675-2] 1974. (Hardcover) Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket. 321pp. Abbreviations, tables, notes, appendices, index. The dust jacket is lightly soiled and has a 1 / 2-inch closed tear at the top of the spine. "At a time when pretrial criminal procedure is the subject of intense public debate, this book gives us new knowledge on how that procedure began. The modern way of prosecuting serious crime emerged in England in the sixteenth century. Mr. Langbein shows how the common law developed a system of official investigation and prosecution which reinforced older patterns of citizen prosecution and made it possible for the medieval institution of jury trial to survive into the modern law". Time Period Renaissance. Locale: ; England; Germany. (Law, Crime, Jury Trials, Law, Prosecutors).