Mikhail Nikolaevich Gernet (Russian: Михаил Николаевич Гернет; 24 July O. S. 12 July">Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates.html" ;"title="nowiki/>Old Style and New Style dates">O. S. 12 July1874 – 16 January 1953) was a Russian and Soviet Criminology">criminologist and legal historian who is considered the founder of sociological criminology in Russia. Gernet taught law at Moscow State University from 1897 on, where he notably opposed the death penalty and introduced the concept of resocialization into Russian criminal law scholarship. In 1911, he took up a post at the Psychoneurological Institute in Moscow. After the

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and until his death, he taught at Moscow University again, where he contributed to the Stalinist legal codifications of the 1930s and developed a class-specific theory of law and crime, which influenced Mikhail Reisner among others.

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* * 1874 births 1953 deaths People from Mordovia 20th-century jurists Imperial Moscow University alumni Academic staff of Moscow State University Academic staff of Imperial Moscow University Recipients of the Stalin Prize Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour Soviet jurists Burials at Vvedenskoye Cemetery Academics from the Russian Empire {{law-bio-stub