Born to be Criminal The Discourse on Criminality and the Practice of Punishment in Late Imperial Russia and Early Soviet Union. Interdisciplinary Approaches Riccardo Nicolosi, Anne Hartmann

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nicolosi, Riccardo <p>Riccardo Nicolosi, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Deutschland</p>, Editor.

Hartmann, Anne <p>Anne Hartmann, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany</p>, Editor.

Series:

Lettre (Transcript (Firm))

Lettre

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Imperial Russia.

Soviet Union.

Criminality.

Criminology.

Literature.

Law.

Medicine.

Slavic Studies.

Eastern European History.

Social History.

Cultural History.

Literary Studies.

Local Subjects:

Imperial Russia.

Soviet Union.

Criminality.

Criminology.

Literature.

Law.

Medicine.

Slavic Studies.

Eastern European History.

Social History.

Cultural History.

Literary Studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (253 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Nicolosi/Hartmann (eds.), Born to be Criminal The Discourse on Criminality and the Practice of Punishment in Late Imperial Russia and Early Soviet Union. Interdisciplinary Approaches

Place of Publication:

Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2017

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

Riccardo Nicolosi (PhD) is professor of Slavic literatures at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich. His latest publications explore the rhetorical and narrative interfaces between literature and science.

Anne Hartmann (PhD) is an assistant researcher und lecturer in the Slavic department at the University of Bochum. In her current research she concentrates on Western intellectuals visiting the Stalinist USSR and on Soviet labour-camp literature.

Summary:

This collection of essays explores the continuities and disruptions in the perceptions of criminality, its causes and ways of fighting it in late imperial Russia and the early Soviet Union. It focuses on both the discourse on criminality and thus the conceptualisation of criminality in various disciplines (criminology, psychiatry, and literature), and penal practice, that is, different aspects of criminal law and anti-crime policy. Thus, the volume is markedly interdisciplinary, with authors representing a variety of approaches in history and literary studies, from social history to discourse analysis, from the history of sciences to text analysis.

»The volume advances our knowledge of Russian and Soviet criminological thinking and practice.«

Besprochen in:H-Soz-u-Kult, 29.01.2019, Alexandra OberländerZeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft, 7/8 (2020), Björn M. Felder

»An important addition to the literature on perceptions of crime and penal policy in Russia and it is sure to spark more research into those subjects.«

»A well worth reading anthology that contains exciting articles on little-noticed aspects of crime discourse.«

»A welworth reading anthology that contains exciting articles on little-noticed aspects of crimediscourse.«

»An important addition to the literature on perceptions of crimeand penal policy in Russia and it is sure to spark more research into those subjects.«

Contents:

Frontmatter 1 Content 5 Acknowledgements 7 Introduction 9 The Empire-Born Criminal 31 P. I. Kovalevskii 63 Criminality, Deviance, and Anthropological Diversity 85 Recidivism, Social Atavism, and State Security in Early Soviet Policing 119 Cesare Lombroso and the Social Engineering of Soviet Society 149 Concepts of the Criminal in the Discourse of "Perekovka" 167 Criminals in Gulag Accounts 199 Varlam Shalamov's Sketches of the Criminal World 233 On the Contributors 247 Backmatter 250

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

ISBN:

9783839441596

3839441595

OCLC:

1013941958