Thèse de doctorat en Droit privé
Sous la direction de Christine Lazerges.
Soutenue en 1993
à Montpellier 1 .
La correctionnalisation judiciaire, phenomene de depenalisation relative et pratique derogatoire au principe de la legalite comme aux regles de competence des juridictions, agit sur le systeme penal a un double point de vue. Instrument de politique criminelle permettant une adaptation de la loi a l'etat et a l'evolution des moeurs, a l'esprit du systeme repressif comme a l'evolution de la criminalite, elle n'en revele pas moins semble-t-il, la permanence du systeme de l'arbitraire des peines regle par le principe de la legalite criminelle. Les effets pervers qu'elle genere semblent commander qu'une reforme legalise cette pratique.
The judiciary reduction to a misdemeanour
The judiciary reduction to a misdemeanour is a phenomenon of relative dispenalization and a derogatory practice compared with the legality principle and the competences rules of the juridictions ; she acts upon the penal system with a double point of view. Firstly, it's an instrument of criminal political which permit an adjustment of the law with the state and the evolution of the mentalities, with a spirit of a repressive system, with the evolution of a criminality. Secondly, it seems reveal the permanence of a discretionary punishment system, ruled by the legality principle. Finally, it involves vicious effects which imposes a reform ; this reform consists to legalize this practice.