TO THE QUESTION OF PUNISHMENT OF WOMEN IN THE FAR EAST IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE 19th – THE BEGINNING OF THE 20th CENTURIES

The article analyses scientific researches regarding essence of deviant behavior as moral or legal aberration through understanding of social values and personal valuable orientations. Mechanical thoughtless merge of collective and individual consciousness forms anomalies in behavior which are permanently fixed and hardly transformed. Anomalies of such kind are the physical abuse and infliction of a bodily injury to a person. On the basis of it the author reveals the essence and specific characteristics of domestic violence, torture of women as deviant behavior among the Russian population of the second half of 19^th – the beginning of the 20^th centuries. Special attention is paid to the society’s attitude to this phenomenon from the point of view of the family law, legislative and social and legal innovations of the developing bourgeois society where the gender and class inequality remained. Male part of the population, showing physical and moral pressure, remained the dictator of a certain behavior model of a woman where she remained dependent, obedient and pleasing. The article analyzes reflection of the violence phenomenon on women of the Far East. On the basis of a number of sources the author points out peculiarities of demonstration of this phenomenon which are characteristic for the population of the Russian Empire, analyzes the attitude of women to personal wellbeing and health from a position of the victim. The article shows increase in number of cases of violence performed to women in peasant community for a number of social reasons in this class. It is shown that under certain conditions violence becomes a norm, an ordinary phenomenon of everyday life, and in this region its distribution is defined by characteristics of a specific society or culture.