Boris Samoilovich Utevskiy’s Standpoint on Improvement of Prison Personnel Training (1930 s)

Abstract

Following the result of independent research work, the article introduces scientific and historical material, which makes it possible to consider some aspects of the pedagogical heritage of famous lawyer Boris Samoilovych Utevskiy (1877-1970), for a wider scientific use. The author examines his pioneering position on the training of Soviet officials of correctional labour establishments in the 1930s and shows the value and viability of his scientific positions on modification of the system in order to improve its effectiveness. The article demonstrates an idea that B.S. Utevskiy was at the origins of the institutionalization of the training system of corrective labour institutions in Soviet Russia. The continuity of a number of domestic innovations by some scientists and government officials, who at various times expressed the need to build in Russia educational establishments for the training of prison staff, is revealed. The author provides his evaluation of the activities of Utevskiy on the formation of the network of educational establishments of penitentiary type in the 30s of the twentieth century.