Murder Most Russian : True Crime and Punishment in Late Imperial Russia /

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"How a society defines crimes and prosecutes criminals illuminates its cultural values, social norms, and political expectations. In Murder Most Russian, Louise McReynolds uses a fascinating series of murders and subsequent trials that took place in the wake of the 1864 legal reforms enacted by...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McReynolds, Louise, 1952- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, [2013]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Trials (Murder)
Sociological jurisprudence.
Murder in mass media.
Murder.
Detective and mystery stories, Russian.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
HISTORY > Europe > Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
Meurtre dans les medias.
Sociologie juridique > Russie > Histoire.
Proces (Meurtre) > Russie > Histoire.
Meurtre > Russie > Histoire.
Detective and mystery stories, Russian > History and criticism.
Sociological jurisprudence > Russia > History.
Trials (Murder) > Russia > History.
Murder > Russia > History.
Russia.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Law and order
  • Criminology : social crime, but individual criminal
  • The jurors
  • Murder as one of the middlebrow arts
  • Russia's postrevolutionary modern men
  • Maria Tarnovskaia and the degenerate Slavic soul
  • Crime fiction steps into action
  • True crime and modern gendered identities.

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