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Crime in the Soviet Union

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153:. The camps had four regimes of ascending severity. In the strict-regime camps, inmates worked at the most difficult jobs, usually outdoors, and received meager rations. Jobs were less demanding and rations better in the camps with milder regimes. The system of corrective labor was regarded by Soviet authorities successful in that the rate of recidivism was quite low. Prisons and labor camps, in the views of former inmates and Western observers, however, were notorious for their harsh conditions, arbitrary and sadistic treatment of prisoners, and flagrant human rights abuses. In 1989 new legislation, which emphasized rehabilitation rather than punishment, was being drafted to "humanize" the special system. Nevertheless, in 1989 conditions for many prisoners had changed little. 1753: 1765: 217:, crime statistics moved sharply and uniformly upward. From 1991 to 1992, the number of officially reported crimes and the overall crime rate each showed a 27 percent increase; the crime rate nearly doubled between 1985 and 1992. By the early 1990s, theft, burglary, and other acts against property accounted for about two-thirds of all crime in 25:
Crime statistics were a state secret in the USSR from the late 1920s to the early 1930s. In the following decades, the Soviet government only released partial information about crime in the USSR. It was only in the 1960s that the Soviet government began to classify and record crime in a systematic
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Apart from this judicial practice, the penal code of USSR contained a number of very specific crimes generally classified as "counter-revolutionary", such as contacts with foreigners or any other kind of opposition or criticism of the communist party. Article 70 listed "anti-Soviet propaganda".
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It was only with the collapse of the Soviet Union that crime data became more widely available. Reconstructions of Soviet crime data after the collapse of the USSR indicate that incarceration rates during Stalin's rule were "extremely high" and that the criminal justice system operated on a
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of state property by officials. Otherwise, the maximum punishment for a first offender was fifteen years. Parole was permitted in some cases after completion of half of the sentence, and periodic amnesties sometimes also resulted in early release.
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who introduced a number of measures into the penal code and investigatory practice that were unusual in other legal systems. Law was to be perceived not as a means of determining individual guilt but
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Large parts of the Penal Code concerning crimes such as private trade (art. 154), criticism of the communist party and other political crimes (art. 58) were revoked in 1993.
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Article 83 - "illegally leaving USSR". Article 190-1 punished dissemination, "in verbal form", of "knowingly false" statements, defaming USSR or its social structure.
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Relocation of petty criminals outside of large cities was also quite common practice of crime management.
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Soviet sociologists argued that crime was rooted in want and poverty, rather than rooted in human nature.
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was separated into "ordinary crime" and "political crime." Soviet authorities did not release crime data.
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In 1989 the Soviet Union had few prisons. About 99% of convicted criminals served their sentences in
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Some Marxist theorists contended that the most immediate reasons for crime in the Soviet Union were
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The death penalty, carried out by shooting, was applied in the Soviet Union only in cases of
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influence. This led to novel inventions in the field of psychiatry ("delusion of reformism",
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manner, but still prevented professional Soviet criminologists from accessing the full data.
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Soviet criminology was significantly influenced by the works of Stalinist prosecutor
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Index

Soviet Union
Perestroika
presumption of guilt
Corruption was common
Marxist criminology
Andrey Vyshinsky
dialectically
class struggle
bourgeois
Article 58 (RSFSR Penal Code)
Speculation
Marxism
crime
means of production
mental retardation
capitalist
sluggish schizophrenia
Political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union
labor camps
MVD
101st kilometre
Lishenets
Capital punishment in the Soviet Union
treason
espionage
terrorism
sabotage
murder
theft
collapse of the Soviet Union

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