Abstract:The article discusses the problem of reforming criminal legislation in relation to juvenile offenders in the Russian Empire in the late XIX-early XX centuries. At that time, among the "judges of justice", who were based on ideas of humanity, values of a child’s personality, protection of his or her rights, the idea of changing the existing criminal legislation in relation to the child offender arose. One of the key issues in the article is consideration of the justification of the terms of st… Show more
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