Crime and punishment in early modern Russia /

Crime and punishment in early modern Russia /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Kollmann, Nancy Shields, 1950-
Imprint:	Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Description:	xvi, 488 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	New studies in European history New studies in European history.
Subject:	Criminal law -- Russia -- History -- 16th century. Criminal law -- Russia -- History -- 17th century. Criminal law -- Russia -- History -- 18th century. Punishment -- Russia -- History -- 16th century. Punishment -- Russia -- History -- 17th century. Punishment -- Russia -- History -- 18th century. Criminal law. Punishment. Russia (Federation)
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8922748

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ISBN:	9781107025134 (hardback) 1107025133 (hardback)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 438-478) and index.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Part I. Judicial Culture
1. Foundations of the criminal law
2. The problem of professionalism: judicial staff
3. Staff and society
4. Policing of officialdom
5. Procedure and evidence
6. Torture
7. Resolving a case
8. Petrine reforms and the criminal law
Part II. Punishment
9. Corporal punishment to 1648
10. Corporal punishment, 1649-98
11. To the exile system
12. Peter I and punishment
13. Capital punishment: form and ritual
14. Punishing highest crime in the long sixteenth century
15. Factions, witchcraft and heresy
16. Riot and rebellion
17. Moral economies: spectacle and sacrifice
18. Peter the Great and spectacles of suffering
Conclusion: Russian legal culture
Appendix:punishment for felonies
Bibliography