Soviet Criminology: Its Birth and Demise, 1917-1936

In: Slavic review: interdisciplinary quarterly of Russian, Eurasian and East European studies, Band 38, Heft 4, S. 614-628

Abstract

Shortly after the 1917 Revolution, the Soviet Union developed sophisticated and diversified criminological research. Well-trained lawyers, doctors, and social scientists obtained access to criminal statistics, research facilities, and funding and were unhampered by ideological limitations. The varieties of descriptive, statistical, and experimental research on crime conducted in criminological institutes by government agencies and independent researchers throughout the Soviet Union did much to advance criminologists' understanding of the personality of the offender and the relationship between crime and social change.