Xavier Rousseaux

Sarah Auspert

Se basant sur des archives administratives et judiciaires, les auteurs nous dévoilent plusieurs facettes de la vie sociale namuroise du XVIIIe siècle, initialement traitées dans leur séminaire de recherche ou leur mémoire de maîtrise. D'une belle qualité et comblant une lacune historiographique, ces contributions dressent un portrait peu banal de la ville et de ses habitants, ainsi que des mécanismes de régulation qui se mettent en place ou échouent. C'est la vie des rues, des cabarets, des prisons, des places publiques, mais aussi une certaine intimité privée, qui se dévoilent. Au-delà de la description des heurs et malheurs de ces hommes, de ces femmes ou de ces enfants, c'est la réflexion sur les phénomènes de déviance, de justice, de prise en charge des problèmes sociaux menée au siècle des Lumières qui est explorée à travers cet ouvrage.

Buveurs, voleuses, insensés et prisonniers à Namur au XVIIIème siècle

Annie Hondeghem

Fréderic Schoenaers

This book focuses on one part of the judicial system: the criminal justice chain. This involves all the activities and actors dealing with policing, prosecution, judgment, and sanctioning of crimes. In the last decades, reforms have been implemented in several European countries. In Belgium, for example, there was the so-called Octopus reform in 1998. The police was restructured, leading to an integration of the police forces on a national and local level. New steering instruments were introduced, such as regional security plans. With regard to the sanctioning of crimes, a new institution was installed, called the sentence implementation court. This book evaluates these reforms and discusses the current reform on the reorganization of the judicial landscape. In addition, it examines the relation between trust and distrust and the application to the judicial system. It discusses the human capital aspect of the system, by means of a study on the prosopography of the Belgian magistrates that analyses the Magistracy as socio-professional group, and focuses on situations of system building, transformations under constraint (occupations), and transfers (colonial experience). Lastly, the book presents a comparative study of Belgium and France regarding the new techniques and instruments that are needed to accelerate the judicial response time and to ensure that the judicial system delivers its services on time.

New Insights on Trust, Cooperation and Human Capital

Modernisation of the Criminal Justice Chain and the Judicial System

Jean Trépanier

This book explores the treatment of junevile offenders in modern Western history. The last few decades have witnessed major debates over youth justice policies. Juvenile and youth justice legislation has been reviewed in a number of countries. Despite the fact that new perspectives, such as restorative justice, have emerged, the debates have largely focused on issues that bring us back to the inception of juvenile justice: namely whether youth justice ought to be more akin to punitive adult criminal justice, or more sensitive to the welfare of youths. This issue has been at the core of policy choices that have given juvenile justice its orientations since the beginning of the twentieth century. It also gave shape to the evolution that paved the way for the creation of juvenile courts in the nineteenth century. Understanding those early debates is essential if we are to understand current debates, and place them into perspective. Based on primary archival research, this comprehensive study begins by presenting the roots, birth and evolution of juvenile justice, from the nineteenth century up to the beginning of the twenty-first. The second part deals with nineteenth century responses to juvenile delinquency in England and Canada, while the third focuses on the welfare orientation that characterized juvenile courts in the first half of the twentieth century in Switzerland, the Netherlands, Germany and Belgium. Finally, the fourth part focuses on the perspective of the youths and their families in Belgium, France and Canada.

From Punishment to Welfare

Youth and Justice in Western States, 1815-1950

Bernard Dauven

Les contributions de ce volume montrent que la clémence est le complément indispensable de la sévérité dans l'exercice de la justice du XIIIe au XVIIe siècle et nuancent ainsi l’image d’une justice médiévale expéditive et sanguinaire.

Pratiques de la grâce (XIIIe-XVIIe siècles)

Préférant miséricorde à rigueur de justice

René Lévy

L'État n'a peut-être jamais fait l'objet d'autant de recherches et de réflexions que depuis qu'il paraît, en Europe, menacé dans son existence et contesté dans ses fonctions. Ce débat n'épargne pas les fonctions traditionnellement considérées comme fondatrices de l'État telle que la Justice pénale. Cette évolution remet en cause l'illusion de permanence que les institutions pénales tendent à sécréter et invite par là-même à s'interroger sur leur passé. Telle est la problématique abordée par le séminaire « Les États et le pénal : acculturation juridique et intégration nationale », qui s'est tenu de 1992 à 1994 aux Facultés universitaires Saint-Louis de Bruxelles. Le plan du présent ouvrage, issu des travaux de ce séminaire, reflète les deux idées directrices qui ont guidé l'entreprise : - dégager la question des rapports entre État, justice pénale et société de l'emprise des points de vue nationaux ; - étudier les vecteurs de l'acculturation dans leur développement et leur mise en oeuvre à travers les débats, les stratégies des acteurs sociaux et les pratiques

justice, Etats et sociétés en Europe (XIIe-XXe siècles)

Le pénal dans tous ses Etats

Dirk Heirbaut

Alain Wijffels

Actes des dix-neuvièmes journées belgo-néerlandaises d'histoire du droit / Akten van het negentiende Belgisch-Nederlands Rechtshistorisch...

Une nouvelle génération de recherches / Een nieuwe onderzoeksgeneratie

Histoire du droit et de la justice / Justitie - en rechts - geschiedenis

Georges Martyn

Stefan Huygebaert

Vanessa Paumen

Eric Bousmar

The contributions to this volume were written by historians, legal historians and art historians, each using his or her own methods and sources, but all concentrating on topics from the broad subject of historical legal iconography. How have the concepts of law and justice been represented in (public) art from the Late Middle Ages onwards? Justices and rulers had their courtrooms, but also churches, decorated with inspiring images. At first, the religious influence was enormous, but starting with the Early Modern Era, new symbols and allegories began appearing. Throughout history, art has been used to legitimise the act of judging, but artists have also satirised the law and the lawyers; architects and artisans have engaged in juridical and judicial projects and, in some criminal cases, convicts have even been sentenced to produce works of art. The book illustrates and contextualises the various interactions between law and justice on the one hand, and their artistic representations in paintings, statues, drawings, tapestries, prints and books on the other.

Artistic Representations and Iconography of Law and Justice in Context, from the Middle Ages to the First World War

The Art of Law

Jean-Marc Berlière

Jonas Campion

Luigi Lacchè

This volume brings together 20 contributions that focus on the early 20th century in Western Europe with the aim of examining the tensions, practices and limitations of military justice during the two World Wars.

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