Criminal Justice in Early Modern Russia
The current energetic research on criminal justice in Russia reflects broader trends in the field away from central autocratic power to the study of locality, empire and subject peoples and to microhistory and examination of lived experience. Case law (extant from the seventeenth century) reveals l...
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| Udgivet i: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/chs, |
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| Format: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Sprog: | Anglais |
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Crime, Histoire & Sociétés
2018
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| Online adgang: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Summary: | The current energetic research on criminal justice in Russia reflects broader trends in the field away from central autocratic power to the study of locality, empire and subject peoples and to microhistory and examination of lived experience. Case law (extant from the seventeenth century) reveals legal culture and is the best angle into the study of crime per se, since statistics are lacking (modern police forces developed only late in the nineteenth century). Russian historians are less eng... |
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