Adversarial or Inquisitorial?Apart from a general skeleton, the systems of criminal justice differ from state to state. These differences reflect the historical roots, political and socioeconomic structures, and cultural traditions of the national states. Several attempts have been made to classify the different systems into homogeneous groups. A popular distinc-tion between procedural systems identifies two major models, corresponding to two legal traditions: the adversarial or accusatorial systems and the inquisitorial or nonadversarial systems. While the Anglo-American systems of the common law tradition belong to the adversarial family, the civil law systems of Continental Europe are by contrast usually labeled as inquisitorial. The distinction between adversarial and inquisitorial systems is also discussed in Sect. 13.4.7.1.
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