Eleskin, M.V. Crime and its prevention in the system of execution of criminal punishments in Russia – on the issue of periodization.

Abstract: Crime at the prisons and similar detention centers has certain specific features, which vary during different historical periods. Some of these specific features are obvious and they give the “national style” to crime. For example, such features are Russian criminal jargon, tattoos, criminal traditions, means of committing crimes, spheres, where crimes are committed. M.V. Eleskin provides a five-piece periodization.