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 u...

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Main Author:	Kamali, Elizabeth Papp ca. 20./21. Jh (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2019
Series:	Studies in legal history
Subjects:	Jury / England / History / To 1500 Schuld Mittelalter Verbrechen Strafe England
Online Access:	BSB01 UBG01 Volltext
Summary:	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
Item Description:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 17 Jul 2019)
Physical Description:	1 Online-Ressource (xv, 336 Seiten)
ISBN:	9781108670890
DOI:	10.1017/9781108670890