DEATH PENALTY – PUNISHMENT OR VIOLENCE: ON THE CONCEPTION OF A.A. PIONTKOVSKII, THE PROFESSOR OF IMPERIAL KAZAN UNIVERSITY Cover Image

СМЕРТНАЯ КАЗНЬ – НАКАЗАНИЕ ИЛИ РАСПРАВА: О КОНЦЕПЦИИ ПРОФЕССОРА ИМПЕРАТОРСКОГО КАЗАНСКОГО УНИВЕРСИТЕТА А.А. ПИОНТКОВСКОГО
DEATH PENALTY – PUNISHMENT OR VIOLENCE: ON THE CONCEPTION OF A.A. PIONTKOVSKII, THE PROFESSOR OF IMPERIAL KAZAN UNIVERSITY

Author(s): Fedor Romanovich Sundurov
Subject(s): Politics, History, Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Criminal Law, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Sociology, Social history, Modern Age, Criminology, Studies in violence and power, Penology, 19th Century, Penal Policy
Published by: Казанский (Приволжский) федеральный университет
Keywords: responsibility; criminal law; punishment; death penalty; humanism;

Summary/Abstract: The paper presents a detailed analysis of the views expressed by A.A. Piontkovskii (1862–1915), the professor of Imperial Kazan University, on death penalty as a form of criminal punishment. Attention is paid to various arguments for death penalty abolishment, which were laid out by A.A. Piontkovskii in his monograph “Death Penalty in Europe” (1908) and remain relevant in our contemporary world.

  • Issue Year: 157/2015
  • Issue No: 6
  • Page Range: 242-249
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Russian