Interaction of traditional and religious normative institutions for the prevention of criminal behavior with the legislation of the Russian empire in the 19th - early 20th centuries

This article opens a new direction in criminological science associated with the study of various anti-criminal social norms and institutions, which include religious rules, traditions (customs), and corporate attitudes. The work proposed by the author is based on a scientific position that asserts that the system of the law of combating crime consists not only of legislation and regulatory legal acts, but also of various social requirements that are generally capable of organizing and ordering the life of society, and in particular to eliminate and neutralize criminogenic determinants, to form law-abiding behavior among the population. Thus, the purpose of this study is to search for evidence of the existence and interaction of traditional and religious norms aimed at preventing criminal behavior with the legislation of the Russian Empire in the 19th - early 20th centuries, which in turn will indicate communication and cooperation of formal (legislation) and informal (religious and traditional) norms in certain periods of Russian history. To achieve this goal, the method of retrospective analysis was used, which made it possible to identify patterns and generalize judgments. The result of studying the aspects of the interaction of legislation with traditional regulatory institutions for the prevention of criminal behavior was the conclusion that the tsarist government allowed the Cossacks, the peoples of the North Caucasus, Siberia and the Far East to blend common legal and public legal relations and extend the action of traditional mechanisms to the sphere of ensuring rule of law and local public safety, use traditions and customs to eliminate and neutralize crimes and misconduct that threaten the community. This statement makes it possible to state the possibility of using separate religious and traditional norms when creating legislation regulating certain issues of ensuring public order and preventing offenses.