UNDER-AGE CONVICTS IN RUSSIA AT THE TURN OF THE XIX-XX CENTURIES: PROBLEMS OF IMPOSING CORRECTIONAL SUPERVISION
In Russia in different periods of historical development the age of criminal discretion differed, it also relates to imposing punishments for under-age persons. The article is of interdisciplinary nature, it examines the formation of the peculiarities of imposing punishment for juvenile criminals at the turn of the XIX-XX centuries. On the basis of the law “On Juvenile and Under-Age Criminals” of 1897 the author analyzes the historical changes together with the socio-economic, organizational and legal, socio-demographic and subjective factors offering difficulties for the legal regulation of adolescent criminal responsibility in the mentioned period.