Eduard R. Babushkin

the chapter discusses the main goals of punishment in the Russian Federation, their significance and correlation with the principles of criminal law, as well as their role in shaping probation policy and further socialization. The article examines the changing goals of criminal punishment in the process of the formation of the Russian state: starting with the first written sources of Ancient Russia, ending with the period of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, with an analysis of the distinctive features and reasons for the adoption of these goals. Purpose: to conduct a historical analysi...

the article is devoted to the analysis of the attitude of citizens towards the use of an exceptional measure of punishment in the territory of the state – the death penalty. The analysis is carried out in relation to citizens of the Russian Federation and the People's Republic of China, formerly 2 communist countries. The practice of applying the death penalty in Russia, studying the reasons for its abolition and subsequent return to force in the Russian Federation, as well as the practice of its public application in the PRC at the present time. The arguments and reasons for the possible lift...