Crime and punishment in early modern Russia / Nancy Shields Kollmann.

Author/creator Kollmann, Nancy Shields, 1950-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoCambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press,
Descriptionxvi, 488 p. ; 24 cm.
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SeriesNew studies in European history
Contents Foundations of criminal law -- The problem of professionalism : judicial staff -- Staff and society -- Policing officialdom -- Procedure and evidence -- Torture -- Resolving a case -- Petrine reforms and the criminal law -- Corporal punishment to 1648 -- Corporal punishment, 1649-98 -- To the exile system -- Peter I and punishment -- Capital punishment : form and ritual -- Punishing highest crime in the long sixteenth century -- Factions, witchcraft, and heresy - Riot and rebellion -- Moral economies : spectacles and sacrifice -- Peter the Great and spectacles of suffering -- Conclusion : Russian legal culture.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 438-478) and index.
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LCCN 2012008943
ISBN9781107025134 (hardback)

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