Crime, cultural conflict, and justice in rural Russia, 1856-1914 / Stephen P. Frank.
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TextSeries: Studies on the history of society and culture ; 31.Publication details: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, 1999.Description: 1 online resource (xxii, 352 pages) : illustrationsContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780520920811
- 0520920813
- 0585283524
- 9780585283524
- 9780520213418
- 0520213416
- Criminal justice, Administration of -- Russia -- History -- 19th century
- Criminal justice, Administration of -- Russia -- History -- 20th century
- Rural crimes -- Russia
- Peasants -- Russia -- History -- 19th century
- Peasants -- Russia -- History -- 20th century
- Serfs -- Emancipation -- Russia
- Russia (Federation) -- Rural conditions
- Russia (Federation) -- Social conditions -- 1801-1917
- Justice p�enale -- Administration -- Russie -- Histoire -- 19e si�ecle
- Justice p�enale -- Administration -- Russie -- Histoire -- 20e si�ecle
- D�elits ruraux -- Russie
- Paysannerie -- Russie -- Histoire -- 19e si�ecle
- Paysannerie -- Russie -- Histoire -- 20e si�ecle
- Serfs -- Affranchissement -- Russie
- Russie -- Conditions rurales
- Russie -- Conditions sociales -- 1801-1917
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology
- Criminal justice, Administration of
- Peasants
- Rural conditions
- Rural crimes
- Serfs -- Emancipation
- Social conditions
- Russia
- Russia (Federation)
- Agrarische maatschappij
- Cultuurconflicten
- Criminaliteit
- Rusland
- Social Welfare & Social Work
- Social Sciences
- Criminology, Penology & Juvenile Delinquency
- 1800-1999
- 364.947/09034 21
- HV9960.R9 F7 1999eb
Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-341) and index.
INTRODUCTION -- PART I— REPRESENTATIONS, INSTITUTIONS, AND THE PROBLEM OF ORDER: Colonial Perspectives: Representations and Realities of Rural Crime and Justice -- A Portraiture of Numbers: Rural Crime and Peasant Felons in the Judicial Statistics -- PART II— CRIME, JUSTICE, AND THE LAW IN VILLAGE LIFE: VIEWS FROM BELOW: Understandings of the Law: Property, Crime, and Justice through Peasant Eyes -- The Hidden Realm of Rural Property Crime -- From Insult to Homicide: Honor, Violence, and Crimes against Persons -- Questions of Belief: "Superstition," Crime, and the Law -- Varieties of Punishment: Between Court and Administrative Authority -- Unofficial Justice in the Village -- Savages at the Gates: Bandits, Hooligans, and the Last Crime Wave -- CONCLUSION
This book is the first to explore the largely unknown world of rural crime and justice in post-emancipation Imperial Russia. Drawing upon previously untapped provincial archives and a wealth of other neglected primary material, Stephen P. Frank offers a major reassessment of the interactions between peasantry and the state in the decades leading up to World War I. Viewing crime and punishment as contested metaphors about social order, his revisionist study documents the varied understandings of criminality and justice that underlay deep conflicts in Russian society, and it contrasts official and elite representations of rural criminality--and of peasants--with the realities of everyday crime at the village level. -- Provided by publisher
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