Crime and punishment in early modern Russia
By: Nancy Shields Kollmann
Series: New studies in European history
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 488
ISBN-13: 9781107025134
Subjects: Punishment; Criminal law
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Foundations of criminal law; title: The problem of professionalism : judicial staff; title: Staff and society; title: Policing officialdom; title: Procedure and evidence; title: Torture; title: Resolving a case; title: Petrine reforms and the criminal law; title: Corporal punishment  to 1648; title: Corporal punishment, 1649-98; title: To the exile system; title: Peter I and punishment; title: Capital punishment : form and ritual; title: Punishing highest crime in the long sixteenth century; title: Factions, witchcraft, and heresy - Riot and rebellion; title: Moral economies : spectacles and sacrifice; title: Peter the Great and spectacles of suffering; title: Conclusion : Russian legal culture.