This book explores the role of mens rea, broadly defined as a factor in jury assessments of guilt and innocence from the early thirteenth through the fourteenth century - the first two centuries of the English criminal trial jury. Drawing upon evidence from the plea rolls, but also relying heavily upon non-legal textual sources such as popular literature and guides for confessors, Elizabeth Papp Kamali argues that issues of mind were central to jurors' determinations of whether a particular defendant should be convicted, pardoned, or acquitted outright. Demonstrating that the word 'felony' itself connoted a guilty state of mind, she explores the interplay between social conceptions of guilt and innocence and jury behavior. Furthermore, she reveals a medieval understanding of felony that involved, in its paradigmatic form, three essential elements: an act that was reasoned, was willed in a way not constrained by necessity, and was evil or wicked in its essence.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9781108712743
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-1-108-71274-3
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Erscheinungstermin: 09.07.2020
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: Erscheinungsjahr 2020
- Serie: Studies in Legal History
- Produktform: Kartoniert, Paperback
- Gewicht: 575 g
- Seiten: 352
- Format (B x H x T): 152 x 229 x 21 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
Themen
- Rechtswissenschaften
- Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein
- Rechtssoziologie, Rechtspsychologie, Rechtslinguistik
- Geisteswissenschaften
- Geschichtswissenschaft
- Alte Geschichte & Archäologie
- Vor- und Frühgeschichte, prähistorische Archäologie