Le crime d’espionnage face aux juges, d’une guerre à l’autre (France, 1914-1940)

Between 1914 and 1940, the fight against espionage is undergoing major changes, firstly due to a changing context and the emergence of new threats. While the police, military and political aspects of this fight have been the subject of several works, this contribution aims at a synthesis on the judi...

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Main Author: Nicolas Picard
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Language:English
Published: Criminocorpus 2023-03-01
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/criminocorpus/12494
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description Between 1914 and 1940, the fight against espionage is undergoing major changes, firstly due to a changing context and the emergence of new threats. While the police, military and political aspects of this fight have been the subject of several works, this contribution aims at a synthesis on the judicial repression of espionage and related offenses. The military justice is mobilized during the First World War do to this. Despite a great severity and sometimes expeditious trials on the front, it nevertheless manages on several occasions to resist to the moral panics linked to spying. The return to peacetime is marked by the frustration of intelligence actors confronted to criminal courts whose sentences are not considered as sufficiently exemplary. This led to several legislative changes in the 1930s, along with an increase in the number of trials.
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Le crime d’espionnage face aux juges, d’une guerre à l’autre (France, 1914-1940)
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first world war
interwar
title Le crime d’espionnage face aux juges, d’une guerre à l’autre (France, 1914-1940)
title_full Le crime d’espionnage face aux juges, d’une guerre à l’autre (France, 1914-1940)
title_fullStr Le crime d’espionnage face aux juges, d’une guerre à l’autre (France, 1914-1940)
title_full_unstemmed Le crime d’espionnage face aux juges, d’une guerre à l’autre (France, 1914-1940)
title_short Le crime d’espionnage face aux juges, d’une guerre à l’autre (France, 1914-1940)
title_sort le crime d espionnage face aux juges d une guerre a l autre france 1914 1940
topic spies
military courts
criminal courts
first world war
interwar
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