L'aveu dans les traditions occidentales accusatoire et inquisitoire : une brève histoire de l'aveu en droit pénal
This thesis analyses confession in Western legal traditions through a historical approach starting in antiquity. Through the study of English, French and Canadian law, it shows how the suspect’s statements have been apprehend by the accusatorial and inquisitorial systems of criminal justice, revealing that confession has always constituted and still constitutes to this day the cornerstone of truth and justice in criminal procedure. It also explains how confession, influenced and transformed by religion, has become an independent means of proof in both systems as a way to both identify and understand the guilty.
Confession Common law Crime France Justice Torture Tradition Accused Adversary Comparative law Criminel England Evidence History Inquisitory Justice Law Penant Penance Procedure Power Sentence Truth United States