Crime and punishment in early modern Russia

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Edition Details

Creator or Attribution (Responsibility): Nancy Shields Kollmann
Language: English
Jurisdiction(s): England
Publication Information: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012
Material: Internet resource
Type: Book, Internet Resource
Series title: New studies in European history.
Permalink: http://books.lawlegal.eu/crime-and-punishment-in-early-modern-russia/ (Stable identifier)

Short Description

XVI, 488 pages ; 24 cm.

Purpose and Intended Audience

Useful for students learning an area of law, Crime and punishment in early modern Russia is also useful for lawyers seeking to apply the law to issues arising in practice.

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Bibliographic information

Responsable Person: Nancy Shields Kollmann.
Publication Date: 2012
Country/State: England
Number of Editions: 13 editions
First edition Date: 2012
Last edition Date: 2015
Languages: English
Library of Congress Code: KLB3946
Dewey Code: 364.9470903
ISBN: 9781107025134 1107025133
OCLC: 780398248

Main Contents

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.

Summary Note

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

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If you wish to locate similar books to “Crime and punishment in early modern Russia”, they can be found under the 364.9470903 in a public library, and the Library of Congress call numbers starting with KLB3946 in most university libraries. If you wish to look up similar titles to “Crime and punishment in early modern Russia” in an on-line library catalog, the official Library of Congress Subject Headings under which they can be found are:

Crime
Criminal justice, Administration of
Criminal law
Punishment
Punishment–Russia (Federation)
Russia
Russia (Federation)

Crime and punishment in early modern Russia

Crime and punishment in early modern Russia