Ministry of Justice (France)

Ministry of Justice (France)
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French Ministry of Justice in Place Vendome, Paris, France


The Ministry of Justice is controlled by the French Minister of Justice (Ministre de la Justice), a top-level cabinet position in the French government. The current Minister of Justice is Michel Mercier. The ministry is headquartered in Paris.[1]

The roles of the minister are to:[2]

  • oversee the building, maintenance and administration of courts;
  • sit as vice-president of the judicial council (which oversees the judicial performance and advises on prosecutiorial performance);
  • supervise public prosecutions;
  • direct corrections and the prison system
  • propose legislation affecting civil or criminal law or procedure.

An ongoing topic of controversy is the amount of control that the Minister of Justice should have on public prosecutions. While it seems desirable that the prosecution should not follow the whim of the executive, especially in cases involving politicians (corruption...), some argue that a prosecution service responsible to no one could go astray.[citation needed]

The Minister of Justice also holds the ceremonial office of Keeper of the Seals and, as such, is custodian of the Great Seal of France.

Contents

Bureaus and Offices

The French Ministry of Justice is subdivided into a number of departments, namely:

  • Cabinet du ministre – Cabinet to the Minister
  • Secrétariat général – Administration
  • Inspection Générale des Services Judiciaires (IGSJ) – Office of Inspector General
  • Direction des Services Judiciaires (DSJ) – Office of Court Administration
  • Direction des Affaires civiles et du Sceau (DACS) – Office of Civil Justice
  • Direction des affaires criminelles et des grâces (DACG) – Office of Public Prosecutions
  • French Prison Service (Direction de l'administration pénitentiaire (DAP) – "Bureau of Corrections")[3]
  • Direction de la protection judiciaire de la jeunesse (DPJJ) – Office of Juvenile Justice
  • Service de contrôle budgétaire et comptable ministériel (SDM) – Office of Accounting and Budget

French Prison Service

La Santé Prison, a unit of the French Prison Service

The French government does not keep demographic statistics of prisoners. Around 2008 demographers, Muslim leaders, and sociologists estimated that inmate populations around France averaged to about 60–70% Muslim.[4] The concentrations were higher in metropolitan areas with concentrated Muslim populations, such as Paris, Marseille, and Lille.[5] In 2010 the prisons in the French Prison Service has one of the highest rates of prisoner suicide in Europe.[6]

Former Ministers of Justice

1790 to the Third Republic

  • Marguerite-Louis-François Duport-Dutertre, 1790–92
  • Jean Marie Roland de la Platière, March–April, 1792
  • Antoine Duranton, April–July, 1792
  • Étienne Dejoly, July–August, 1792
  • Georges Jacques Danton, August–October, 1792
  • Dominique Joseph Garat, 1792–93
  • Louis Gohier, 1793–94
  • Philippe-Antoine Merlin de Douai, 1795–96
  • Charles Génissieu, January–April, 1796
  • Philippe Antoine Merlin de Douai, 1796–97
  • Charles Joseph Lambrechts, 1797–99
  • Jean Jacques Régis de Cambacérès, July–December, 1799
  • André Joseph Abrial, 1799–1802
  • Claude Ambroise Régnier, duc de Massa, 1802–13
  • Mathieu Louis Molé, 1813–14
  • Pierre Paul Nicolas Henrion de Pansey, April–May, 1814
  • Charles-Henri Dambray, 1814–15
  • Jean Jacques Régis de Cambacérès, March–June, 1815
  • Antoine Boulay de la Meurthe, June–July, 1815
  • Étienne-Denis Pasquier, July–September, 1815
  • François de Barbé-Marbois, 1815–16
  • Charles-Henri Dambray, 1816–17
  • Étienne-Denis Pasquier, 1817–18
  • Pierre François Hercule de Serre, 1818–21
  • Charles Ignace de Peyronnet, 1821–28
  • Joseph Marie Portalis, 1828–29
  • Pierre Bourdeau, May–August 1829
  • Jean de Courvoisier, 1829–30
  • Jean de Chantelauze, May–July, 1830
  • Jacques Charles Dupont de l'Eure, July–December, 1830
  • Joseph Mérilhou, 1830–31
  • Félix Barthe, 1831–34
  • Jean-Charles Persil, 1834–36
  • Paul Jean Pierre Sauzet, February–September, 1836
  • Jean-Charles Persil, 1836–37
  • Félix Barthe, 1837–39
  • Amédée Girod de l'Ain, March–May, 1839
  • Jean-Baptiste Teste, 1839–40
  • Alexandre-François Vivien, March–October, 1840
  • Nicolas Martin du Nord, 1840–47
  • Michel Hébert, 1847–48
  • Adolphe Crémieux, February–June, 1848
  • Eugène Bethmont, June–July, 1848
  • Alexandre Marie, July–December, 1848
  • Eugène Rouher, 1847–1851
  • Joseph Corbin, October–November, 1851
  • Alfred Daviel, November–December, 1851
  • Eugène Rouher, 1851–52
  • Jacques Pierre Abbatucci, 1852–57
  • Paul de Royer, 1857–59
  • Claude Delangle, 1859–63
  • Pierre Jules Baroche, 1863–69
  • Jean-Baptiste Duvergier, 1869–70
  • Émile Ollivier, January–August 1870
  • Michel Grandperret, August–September, 1870

Third Republic

Vichy France

  • Raphaël Alibert, 1940–41
  • Joseph Barthélémy, 1941–43
  • Maurice Gabolde, 1943–44

Free France

  • René Cassin, September 1941 – June 1943
  • Jules Abadie, June–September, 1943
  • François de Menthon, 1943–44

Fourth Republic

Fifth Republic

See also


References

  1. ^ "Contact." Ministry of Justice. Retrieved on 6 March 2010.
  2. ^ Travaillot, Françoise. "French Ministry of Justice." Ministry of Justice (France). 15 September. 1. Retrieved on 6 May 2010.
  3. ^ Living in Detention – Handbook for New Inmates – French Prison Service (English). Ministry of Justice. Retrieved on 21 May 2010.
  4. ^ Moore, Molly. "In France, Prisons Filled With Muslims." Washington Post. Tuesday 29 April 2008. Retrieved on 24 June 2010. 1.
  5. ^ Moore, Molly. "In France, Prisons Filled With Muslims." Washington Post. Tuesday 29 April 2008. Retrieved on 24 June 2010. 2.
  6. ^ Davies, Lizzy. "French prison system under scrutiny after suicide." The Guardian. Monday 22 February 2010. Retrieved on 20 May 2010.

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