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The Digorsky People's Court: an Experiment in the System of Justice in the Central Caucasus in the Second Half of the 1840s
The article examines the circumstances and conditions of the Russian authorities’ experiment
in the system of local judicial and administrative control institutions in the Central Caucasus in the second half of the 1840s, using the example of the establishment of the Digori People’s Court. Based on the problem-chronological, comparative-historical, and institutional approaches, the article examines the court’s personnel, its authority, the procedure for holding court sessions, the regulatory framework for
decision-making, the specifics of documenting its activities, and provides typological similarities with other border and temporary courts that operated in the region at different times.
It has been established that when establishing the Digori People’s Court, the authorities relied on certain principles that had already been tested in this group of local judicial and administrative control institutions (election of judges by the population, supervision by a military commander, removal of serious crimes
from their jurisdiction, administration of justice according to customary law, etc.).communities in urban environments.
in the system of local judicial and administrative control institutions in the Central Caucasus in the second half of the 1840s, using the example of the establishment of the Digori People’s Court. Based on the problem-chronological, comparative-historical, and institutional approaches, the article examines the court’s personnel, its authority, the procedure for holding court sessions, the regulatory framework for
decision-making, the specifics of documenting its activities, and provides typological similarities with other border and temporary courts that operated in the region at different times.
It has been established that when establishing the Digori People’s Court, the authorities relied on certain principles that had already been tested in this group of local judicial and administrative control institutions (election of judges by the population, supervision by a military commander, removal of serious crimes
from their jurisdiction, administration of justice according to customary law, etc.).communities in urban environments.
South of Russia, North Caucasus region, national politics, national minorities, dispersed ethnic groups, indigenization, national schools, urbanization