Historical and legal aspects of forming and development of legal regulation of penalty punishment as a deprivation of freedom for condemned women

This article explores the current issues related to criminal responsibility and human rights. Law monuments are analyzed, both in the Middle Ages (the Church Charter of Prince Yaroslav the Wise in the 11th-12th centuries, the Code of Law of 1550, the Council of 1649), and in the Soviet period (Correctional Labor Codes of the RSFSR in 1924, 1933 and 1970. ).