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Development of the French criminal justice system has important roots in ecclesiastical law of the Roman Catholic Church. While England was moving towards the adversarial system of criminal justice, in France was laying the basis for the inquisitorial system. This goes back to the medieval church's efforts to investigate and eliminate heresies.
Though France's homicide rate fluctuated substantially in recent years, it tended to decrease through 2020 - 2024 period ending at 6.96 cases per 100,000 population in 2020 and 6.9 cases per 100,000 in 2021 and 6.62 cases per 100,000 in 2022 and 6.5 cases per 100,000 in 2023 and 6.31 cases per 100,000 in 2024 [1]
In France, the term criminal procedure (French: procédure pénale) has two meanings; a narrow one, referring to the process that happens during a criminal case as it proceeds through the phases of receiving and investigating a complaint, arresting suspects, and bringing them to trial, resulting in possible sentencing—and a broader meaning referring to the way the justice system is organized ...
Persons Detained Statistics of incarceration ("detained") from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Data Analysis Tools – Corrections Statistical Analysis Tool (CSAT) – Prisoners . United States Bureau of Justice Statistics .
In 2009, the Nantes Administrative Court condemned the State for injury to three inmates because of outrageous detention conditions. An expert appointed by the court of Nantes had indeed found several problems in detention conditions: for example, prisoners were 7 people to a 30 m 2 cell, without separated toilets. [5]
Criminal procedure (procédure pénale) focuses on how individuals accused of crimes are dealt with in the criminal justice system: how people are investigated, prosecuted, tried, and punished. In France, these procedural issues are codified in the French code of criminal procedure ( Code de procédure pénale ).
Instead, financial cases concerning private funds and money fall within the jurisdiction of the civil justice system. Prior to 1982, France only had a single national Court of Audit. With a push toward decentralization in the creation of province-like administrative regions and the increased role of local elected officials and considering the ...
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