Criminal Justice, Politics and the Public Sphere
by
Frances Nethercott
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2007
Following the emancipation of the serfs in 1861, and again during the Gorbachev and Yel’tsin eras, the issue of individual legal rights and freedoms occupied a central place in the reformist drive to modernize criminal justice. While in tsarist Russia the gains of legal scholars and activists in...