Crime and Punishment in Early Modern Russia.
Magisterial account of criminal law in early modern Russia in a wider European and Eurasian context.
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2012
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| Series: | New studies in European history.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; CRIME AND PUNISHMENT IN EARLY MODERN RUSSIA; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; SOURCES OF POSITIVE LAW AND LEGAL PRACTICE; PART I Judicial culture; CHAPTER 1 Foundations of the criminal law; CHIMERAS OF CENTRALIZATION; DEFINING THE CRIMINAL SPHERE IN THE LAW; CHANCERIES, GOVERNORS AND BRIGANDAGE ELDERS; GOVERNOR AND BRIGANDAGE ELDER IN BELOOZERO AND ARZAMAS; CHURCH AND LANDLORD; CHAPTER 2 The problem of professionalism: judicial staff; THE PROBLEM OF PROFESSIONALISM: SCRIBES; A LAWYERLY CLASS?; ELECTED COMMUNITY OFFICIALS.
- EXECUTIONERSCHAPTER 3 Staff and society; REPORTING AND ARRESTING; BOND AND CUSTODY; PRISON; CHAPTER 4 Policing officialdom; STRATEGIES OF COMPENSATION; PREVENTING CORRUPTION; ATTACKING CORRUPTION; THE PERSISTENCE OF CORRUPTION; CHAPTER 5 Procedure and evidence; ACCUSATORY AND INQUISITORY PROCEDURES; MATERIAL EVIDENCE; ORAL INTERROGATION; COMMUNITY SURVEYS AS EVIDENCE; COMMUNITY SURVEYS IN PRACTICE; THE COURSE OF A TRIAL; CHAPTER 6 Torture; TORTURE IN THE LAW; TORTURE IN BRIGANDAGE FELONIES; TORTURE IN CASES OF HIGHEST CRIME; REFLECTIONS ON TORTURE; CHAPTER 7 Resolving a case; JUDGES AUTONOMY.
- RESOLUTIONS IN PRACTICECENTRAL OVERSIGHT IN CASES OF HIGHEST CRIME; LITIGANTS AUTONOMY: APPEAL AND SETTLING; PRESENTING THE VERDICT; THE PROVISION OF MERCY; CHAPTER 8 Petrine reforms and the criminal law; PETRINE CHANGES IN THE LAW AND INSTITUTIONS; TRANSFORMING JUDICIAL PROCESS; PETRINE JUDGES AT WORK; THE PROBLEM OF CORRUPTION; THE DEMISE OF JUDICIAL REFORMS; PART II Punishment; CHAPTER 9 Corporal punishment to 1648; WHY PUNISH?; PUNISHMENT IN THE LAW BEFORE 1649; CORPORAL PUNISHMENT; GRADATIONS: RECIDIVISM AND SOCIAL DEFERENCE; PUNISHMENT IN PRACTICE BEFORE 1649.
- CHAPTER 10 Corporal punishment, 1649-1698THE 1649 CONCILIAR LAW CODE; CRIMINAL LEGISLATION AFTER THE ULOZHENIE; DEFERENCE TO SOCIAL STATUS IN SANCTIONS; CORPORAL PUNISHMENT IN PRACTICE, 1649-1698; CHAPTER 11 To the exile system; THE LADDER OF RECIDIVISM; EXILE AS PUNISHMENT; EXILE AS LABOR AND COLONIZATION; BODILY MUTILATION AND BRANDING; EXILE, CRIME AND MUTILATION; CHAPTER 12 Peter I and punishment; PETRINE LEGAL CONCEPTS ABOUT PUNISHMENT; SHAME AND SOCIAL HIERARCHIES OF PUNISHMENT; EXILE AND BRANDING; THE LAW IN PRACTICE IN ARZAMAS: SETTLING SUITS.
- THE LAW IN PRACTICE IN ARZAMAS: TORTURE AND PUNISHMENTTHE LAW IN PRACTICE IN ARZAMAS: INDEPENDENT JUDGMENT; CHAPTER 13 Capital punishment: form and ritual; FORMS OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT; RITUALS OF EXECUTION; CHAPTER 14 Punishing highest crime in the long sixteenth century; HIGHEST CRIME IN THE LONG SIXTEENTH CENTURY; IVAN IV'S OPRICHNINA; FROM GODUNOV TO THE TIME OF TROUBLES; "WORD AND DEED"; CHAPTER 15 Factions, witchcraft, and heresy; DEFINING HIGHEST CRIME IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY; POLITICAL EXECUTIONS AMONG BOYAR FACTIONS; PUNISHING WITCHCRAFT; SCHISM IN THE CHURCH.
