The new French system

Question 1

When was the Guillotine first used?

Answer 1

In France, April 1792

Question 2

What was the significance of the guillotine?

Answer 2

Had direct links to new French legal codes that followed the French revolution, symbol occupation, and foreign dominance in the Rhineland, and it signified the spread of the Napoleonic Code.

Question 3

What movements were there before 1789 during the French revolution?

Answer 3

Reforming the law code and criminal procedure, and the rapid changes that took place during the revolution ultimately failed.

Question 4

How many committees were appointed to make the new criminal procedure and law code?

Answer 4

Two.

Question 5

What was the purpose of the 1791 criminal procedure?

Answer 5

To witness how crimes were indicted and tried.

Question 6

What did the criminal code 1791 state?

Answer 6

What a crime was and how punishments were possible

Question 7

What was involved within the 1791 criminal procedure?

Answer 7

Juries, oral evidence, grand juries, trial juries

Question 8

Who invented the Guillotine?

Answer 8

Doctor Joseph Guillotine

Question 9

What were the opinions on the Guillotine?

Answer 9

Some thought it was harsh, some thought it wasn’t

Question 10

What did the Napoleonic Codes of 1808 involve?

Answer 10

• reorganised prisons
• Reformed criminal procedure
• kept juries at the trial stage
• Restored pre-trial to inquisitorial
• selection process for juries
• Preventive detention

Question 11

True or False: French soldiers took with them the new Napoleonic codes around Europe.

Answer 11

True

Question 12

What did the peace treaty of the Netherlands and Prussia involve?

Answer 12

• The Netherlands abolished torture in 1795

- New Criminal codes and Civil codes made

Question 13

True or False: In the end, Napoleonic was defeated and Ranish law was adopted.

Answer 13

True

Question 14

What were the problems with The 1791 new codes?

Answer 14

• Juries were disliked (incompetent, lenient, ignorant, bias)
• Oral testimony (created confusion)
• Local Knowledge (used local knowledge to make decisions rather than on the evidence)

Question 15

What were the key intentions of the criminal code?

Answer 15

Intended to be humane, to prevent rather than punish crimes, deterrence, reform, punishment=imprisonment, corporal punishment abolished, and capital punishment retained for some crimes.