NUMBER OF CONVICTED IN THE PROVINCE OF THE CENTRAL BLACK EARTH RUSSIA IN THE LATE XIX - EARLY XX CENTURIES
The article deals with the problem of crime in the provinces of the Central Black Earth Russia in the late XIX - early XX centuries. The author has set the task to reveal features of its development in the agricultural region, comparing the figures obtained from the all-Russian. The paper summarized and analyzed the data available on the number of convicted by district courts, members of the county district courts, municipal judges, rural superintendents and volost court in Kursk, Voronezh, Orel and Tambov provinces, identified the main trends in derived indicators.