Abstract
Dorena Caroli, Homeless children in court in pre-revolutionary Russia, 1864-1917. This article tackles the problem of abandonment and juvenile delinquency in Russia (1864-1917) from a legal point of view. This process combines an analysis of the criminologie discours of the time and of their impact on the penal reforms concerning minors. The reconstitution of the trend of depenalization of juvenile delinquency was based on the works of D.A. Drir and M.N. Gernet. Part one tells of the development of a penal procedure and special penal treatment which were introduced with the legal reforms of 1864; it also tells how, thanks to studies on socio-biological causes of juvenile delinquency (1897), Dril' "modernized" these reforms. At the turn of the century, Dril' himself altered his views and advocated a policy of social prevention of delinquency. Part two shows how Gernet's emerging legal sociological discourse on the social causes of delinquency allows the introduction of juvenile courts (1910). The survey of the cases treated by the juvenile court of St. Petersburg showed that the state should support homeless children. This completely changed the status of young delinquents and became a leitmotiv in the speeches on the role of court up until the October Revolution.
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