A Comparative Criminological Study of Crime in Moscow (1923 and 1968-69)

In the spring of 1923, a criminological study of crime in Moscow was undertaken on the initiative of the Administrative Department of the Moscow Soviet of Working People's Deputies by law students of the School of Social Sciences of Moscow University No. 1. A collection of articles, The Criminal World of Moscow [Prestupnyi mir Moskvy], edited by Professor M. Gernet and published in 1924, was based upon it.