Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-321) and index.

Understanding criminal process : a three-dimensional world view -- The European inquisitorial tradition -- The French revolution in criminal justice -- Regimes of terror : inquisition-process in the 20th century -- Maoism and the Chinese inquisitorial tradition -- Islamic criminal justice : theocratic inquisitoriality -- The origins of adversariality -- The great due-process revolution : adversariality in Europe and Latin America -- Adversariality and the collapse of 'socialist legality' -- Origins of the English jury -- The jury in the British overseas empire -- The European jury -- Direct popular participation : village courts and popular tribunals -- Criminal justice reform.