Murder most Russian true crime and punishment in late imperial Russia /
"How a society defines crimes and prosecutes criminals illuminates its cultural values, social norms, and political expectations. In Murder Most Russian, Louise McReynolds uses a fascinating series of murders and subsequent trials that took place in the wake of the 1864 legal reforms enacted by...
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2013.
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Table of Contents:
- Law and order
- Criminology : social crime, but individual criminal
- The jurors
- Murder as one of the middlebrow arts
- Russia's postrevolutionary modern men
- Maria Tarnovskaia and the degenerate Slavic soul
- Crime fiction steps into action
- True crime and modern gendered identities.