Crime and punishment in early modern Russia /

This is a magisterial new account of the day-to-day practice of Russian criminal justice in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Nancy Kollmann contrasts Russian written law with its pragmatic application by local judges, arguing that this combination of formal law and legal institutions...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kollmann, Nancy Shields, 1950-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Colección:New studies in European history.
Temas:
Criminal law > Russia (Federation)
Punishment > Russia (Federation)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
Criminal law.
Punishment.
Strafjustiz
Rechtskultur
Russia (Federation)
Russland
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foundations of criminal law
  • The problem of professionalism : judicial staff
  • Staff and society
  • Policing officialdom
  • Procedure and evidence
  • Torture
  • Resolving a case
  • Petrine reforms and the criminal law
  • Corporal punishment to 1648
  • Corporal punishment, 1649-98
  • To the exile system
  • Peter I and punishment
  • Capital punishment : form and ritual
  • Punishing highest crime in the long sixteenth century
  • Factions, witchcraft, and heresy
  • Riot and rebellion
  • Moral economies : spectacles and sacrifice
  • Peter the Great and spectacles of suffering
  • Conclusion : Russian legal culture.

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