Crime, cultural conflict, and justice in rural Russia, 1856-1914 /
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...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley, Calif. :
University of California Press
1999.
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| Series: | Studies on the history of society and culture ;
31. |
| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.8501085 |
Table of Contents:
- 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