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The Soviet Criminal Correction System: Change and Stability

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2024

Walter D. Connor
Walter D. Connor*
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University of Michigan
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The publication in July, 1969, of the “Principles of Corrective-Labor Legislation of the USSR and the Union Republics” was notable for a lack of fanfare. This was in itself not surprising, since in the area of corrective-labor law, even since the death of Stalin, unpublished statutes have been the main guides for the operation of corrective-labor colonies and prisons. The old corrective-labor codes of the union republics, while still legally in force, had admittedly lost any real legal power.

While the new Principles came upon the scene with little advance announcement, this fact should not obscure the more important one that “reform,” clarification, and codification have been on the minds of Soviet jurists for the preceding thirteen years — years which have seen the promulgation of two successive statutes (polozheniia) to guide the operation of the corrective-labor system in the RSFSR but, until 1969, little by way of publication or systematization of new provisions.

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Law & Society Review , Volume 6 , Issue 3 , February 1972 , pp. 367 - 391
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Copyright © 1972 The Law and Society Association

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Footnotes

AUTHOR'S NOTE: This is a slightly revised version of a delivered at the Sixty-sixth Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Los Angeles, California, September 8-12, 1970. Copyright, 1970, The American Political Science Association.

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