Crime and Punishment in Early Modern Russia

ISBN-13: 9781107025134 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 506 str.

Nancy Shields Kollmann

Opis

Magisterial account of criminal law in early modern Russia in a wider European and Eurasian context.

Recenzje

'I thoroughly recommend this exceptional piece of scholarship for those interested in the legal history of early modern Russia, as well as the complex socio-political dynamic at work in matters of crime and punishment. What is more, Kollman's analysis of criminal law in Russia provides a valuable addition to our wider understanding of European state-building.' Robert Collis, European History Quarterly

Spis treści

Introduction; Part I. Judicial Culture: 1. Foundations of the criminal law; 2. The problem of professionalism: judicial staff; 3. Staff and society; 4. Policing of officialdom; 5. Procedure and evidence; 6. Torture; 7. Resolving a case; 8. Petrine reforms and the criminal law; Part II. Punishment: 9. Corporal punishment to 1648; 10. Corporal punishment, 1649–98; 11. To the exile system; 12. Peter I and punishment; 13. Capital punishment: form and ritual; 14. Punishing highest crime in the long sixteenth century; 15. Factions, witchcraft and heresy; 16. Riot and rebellion; 17. Moral economies: spectacle and sacrifice; 18. Peter the Great and spectacles of suffering; Conclusion: Russian legal culture; Appendix: punishment for felonies; Bibliography.