Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences / Exile to Settlement in Siberia in the Criminal Punishment System of the Russian Empire in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries

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Issue
Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2019 12 (6)
Authors
Volchetskaia, Tat’iana S.; Smirnov, Leonid B.; Shestakov, Dmitrii A.
Contact information
Volchetskaia, Tat’iana S.: Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University 14 A. Nevskogo Str., Kaliningrad, 236016, Russia; Smirnov, Leonid B.: The Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia 48 Moyka Embankment, St. Petersburg, 191186, Russia; Shestakov, Dmitrii A.: The Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia 48 Moyka Embankment, St. Petersburg, 191186, Russia;
Keywords
decrees; Code of Criminal and Corrective Penalties of 1845; exile to settlement in Siberia; criminal justice system; attainder
Abstract

The paper focuses on the evolution of the exile to settlement in Siberia from being a mitigating alternative to the death penalty to becoming a criminal punishment that ranks third in severity. It also provides an assessment of the theory that the exile was a way of Siberian colonization. We explore the role of the exile in the transformation of serf peasants into the state peasants in Siberia. The papers analyses various crimes punishable by the exile to settlement in Siberia in the imperial period. The authors consider the use of the exile of the convicted person together with his relatives as a way to prevent escapes. The involvement of statistical data led to the conclusion that by the early 20th century “colonization” function failed

Pages
946–952
DOI
10.17516/1997–1370–0433
Paper at repository of SibFU
https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/110372

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