Crime and Punishment in Russia: A Comparative History from Peter the Great to Vladimir Putin

ISBN-13: 9781474224352 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 256 str.

Jonathan Daly; Jonathan Smele; Michael Melancon

Opis

Jonathan Daly's Crime and Punishment in Russia is the first book-length study of this important topic. Drawing together much existing scholarship, it provides an overview of evolution of the system of criminal justice during the course of roughly three centuries of Russian history up to the present day. Useful features such as maps, figures, a chronology and a glossary are included, and particular attention is given throughout to comparative analysis with Western countries. The book approaches Russia both on its own terms and in light of developments in Europe and the wider West, to which Russia's rulers and educated elites continuously looked for legal models and inspiration. It examines the weak development of the rule of the law over the period and analyzes the contrasts and seeming contradictions of a society which abolished capital punishment in the mid-1700s only to officially sanction the widespread application of corporal punishment until the early 1900s. Daly also provides concise political, social and economic contextual detail as part of the survey to show how the story of crime and punishment fits into the broader narrative of modern Russian history. This is an important and useful book for all students of modern Russian history as well as the history of crime and punishment in modern Europe.