RUSSIAN PRISONS IN THE LATE 19TH AND EARLY 20TH CENTURY AND THEIR CORRECTIVE SIGNIFICANCE Cover Image

ТЮРЬМА В РОССИИ В КОНЦЕ XIX – НАЧАЛЕ XX ВЕКА И ЕЕ ИСПРАВИТЕЛЬНОЕ ЗНАЧЕНИЕ
RUSSIAN PRISONS IN THE LATE 19TH AND EARLY 20TH CENTURY AND THEIR CORRECTIVE SIGNIFICANCE

Author(s): Sergei Viktorovich Shebalkov
Subject(s): History, Sociology, Social history, Recent History (1900 till today), Criminology, Penology, 19th Century
Published by: Казанский (Приволжский) федеральный университет
Keywords: prison; prisoner; political prisoners; penitentiary system; corrective effect; correction; imprisonment;

Summary/Abstract: The article studies the peculiarities of internal regime in Russian prisons in terms of its corrective effect on prisoners. The author analyzes various factors influencing the successful solution of the legislative problem of transformation of prison to a correctional institution. The views of well-known Russian jurists of the late 19th and early 20th century on this subject are considered in this paper. The differences in the position of criminal and political prisoners are also mentioned. The author comes to a conclusion that failures in the correction of prisoners in the penitentiary institutions were caused by a whole complex of reasons.

  • Issue Year: 156/2014
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 111-120
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Russian