Overview
- Offers an innovative grassroots approach of the complex interactions between justice and populations in wartime
- Shows new perspectives on the actors, practices and expectations of justice in wartime Belgium (1914-1950)
- Represents a groundbreaking approach to civil and criminal justice in wartime
Part of the book series: Studies in the History of Law and Justice (SHLJ, volume 19)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
- Justice In Wartime
- Transitional Justice In Belgium
- Uses Of Justice
- Military Justice And World Wars
- Denunciation In Wartime
- Justice And Police In Occupied Countries
- Collaboration In The East Cantons
- National Courts And International Law In Wartime
- Juvenile Delinquency And Juvenile Courts In Wartime
- Justice In The Third Reich
- criminal justice
About this book
Ten out of the eleven chapters focus on Belgian issues, covering the two world wars in equal measure. Belgium’s diverse war experiences in the twentieth century mean that a study of the country provides fascinating insights into the impact of war on the dynamics of ‘doing justice’. The Belgian army fought in both world wars, and the vast majority of the population experienced military occupation. The latter led to various forms of collaboration with the enemy, which required the newly reinstalled Belgian government to implement large-scale judicial processes to repress these ‘antipatriotic’ behaviours, in order to restore both its authority and legitimacy and to re-establish social peace.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Mélanie Bost holds a Ph.D. in contemporary history. She dedicated her thesis (Universit . é catholique de Louvain, 2013) to the role and attitude of the Belgian judiciary during the First World War. She is an associated researcher at the CegeSoma and the Royal Military Academy (Brussels). Her research focuses on the exercise of justice during the two world wars, daily life in occupied Belgium in 1914-1918 and military intelligence.
Antoon Vrints is associate professor at the Department of History (Research Unit Social History after 1750) of Ghent University. He is specialized in the history of conflict regulation and the social history of the First World War. Vrints recently co-authored a monograph on the Belgian veterans of the First World War.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Doing Justice In Wartime
Book Subtitle: Multiple Interplays between Justice and Populations during the Two World Wars
Editors: Mélanie Bost, Antoon Vrints
Series Title: Studies in the History of Law and Justice
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72050-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-72049-0Published: 08 June 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-72052-0Published: 09 June 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-72050-6Published: 07 June 2021
Series ISSN: 2198-9842
Series E-ISSN: 2198-9850
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 186
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations, 13 illustrations in colour
Topics: Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History, Legal History, History of World War II and the Holocaust, Criminal Justice