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Causes of Crime in Pre-revolutionary Siberia in Texts of Political and Legal Doctrine of N.M. Yadrintsev

Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: The purpose of this study is to identify and demonstrate the basic causes and factors of crime in pre-revolutionary Siberia in the texts of the political and legal doctrine of N. M. Yadrintsev. The work has been carried out on the basis of text study tools and hermeneutic methodology. The published works of the educator have been the subject of the analysis, presenting the political and legal narrative of the growth of criminal deviations in the Siberian region during the empire period. The authors emphasize that the texts of the enlightener’s works were filled with deep legal, philosophical and socio-legal reflection on the causes and conditions of crimes of exiles, convicts and escaped vagrants in Russia and Siberia. The article shows that the leader of the movement of Siberian regionalists considered that not only the growth of the number of exiled settlers served as one of the main criminogenic factors, but also ineffective and obscure amendments in criminal legislation. Also, according to N. M. Yadrintsev, waiver of imprisonment for some offenders inevitably gave rise to an increase in the number of exiles. Along with the increase in the number of criminal and political exiles, the requirements for criminal detection also became more complicated. All this had an extremely negative impact on the crime rate in the region. The study established that, according to the political and legal heritage of the thinker, the growth of the vagrant population, numerous internal deportations, numerous convicts and faults in state penitentiary policy had negative impact on the causes of crime in pre-revolutionary Siberia.
DOI: 10.14258/leglin(2024)3302
Language: English
Subfield: Law
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4409356147
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