DISCUSSIONS ON CONDITIONAL CONDEMNATION IN PRE-REVOLUTIONARY RUSSIA
The content of discussions of Russian jurists of the period of the Russian Empire about the criminal-legal institution of conditional conviction is revealed. The positions of A.A. Piontkovsky, V.V. Esipova, I. Ya. Foinitsky, N.S. Tagantsev and other scientists. It is noted that the majority of Russian lawyers supported probation as a method of criminal-legal impact on a criminal from the point of view of humanitarian and preventive components and bearing in mind the positive experience of Western European countries. However, a suspended sentence was never introduced into legislation, and even more so in law enforcement practice, largely due to the opinion of jurists who held positions in management structures.