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Crime, Law, and Penal Practice in the USSR

Crime, Law, and Penal Practice in the USSR 297 Crime, Law, and Penal Practice in the USSR A. Shtromas * 1. Prefatory Remark 2. The Rate and Structure of Crime 2.1. The Rate of Crime The following essay (of which the second and concluding part will appear in a future issue of the Review of Socialist Law) is based principally on the author's own experience and observation as a practising and academic lawyer in the Soviet Union. After graduating from the Moscow Uni- versity Law Faculty in 1952, the author worked as an advocate in Lithuania. From 1958 until 1966, he was the head of the Lithuanian Laboratory for Criminological In- vestigations which in 1961 became a part of the then newly established Lithuanian Institute of Forensic Sciences (both the laboratory and the institute were equally involved in research and practical activities; in the latter instance they were producing "scientific evidence", i.e. expert testimony for particular cases accordant to the requests of investiga- tion officers and courts handling these cases). From 1966 until 1973, the author worked in Moscow as a Senior Research Fellow of the All-Union Institute of Soviet Leg- islation and of the All-Union Institute of Forensic Sciences. At the end of 1973, he http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Review of Socialist Law (in 1992 continued as Review of Central and East European Law) Brill

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Publisher
Brill
Copyright
© 1977 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0165-0300
eISSN
1875-2985
DOI
10.1163/157303577X00228
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297 Crime, Law, and Penal Practice in the USSR A. Shtromas * 1. Prefatory Remark 2. The Rate and Structure of Crime 2.1. The Rate of Crime The following essay (of which the second and concluding part will appear in a future issue of the Review of Socialist Law) is based principally on the author's own experience and observation as a practising and academic lawyer in the Soviet Union. After graduating from the Moscow Uni- versity Law Faculty in 1952, the author worked as an advocate in Lithuania. From 1958 until 1966, he was the head of the Lithuanian Laboratory for Criminological In- vestigations which in 1961 became a part of the then newly established Lithuanian Institute of Forensic Sciences (both the laboratory and the institute were equally involved in research and practical activities; in the latter instance they were producing "scientific evidence", i.e. expert testimony for particular cases accordant to the requests of investiga- tion officers and courts handling these cases). From 1966 until 1973, the author worked in Moscow as a Senior Research Fellow of the All-Union Institute of Soviet Leg- islation and of the All-Union Institute of Forensic Sciences. At the end of 1973, he

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Review of Socialist Law (in 1992 continued as Review of Central and East European Law)Brill

Published: Jan 1, 1977

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