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Criminal psychology --- Trials --- Law --- History --- Psychological aspects. --- Procès --- Droit --- Psychologie criminelle --- Aspect psychologique. --- Aspect psychologique
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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.
Jury --- Judgments by peers --- Juries --- Trial by jury --- Trial by peers --- Trials --- Law and fact --- Lay judges --- History --- Law and legislation
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