The ark of Beklemishev. Arsentiev V.A.

The book of Vladimir Arsentiev “The Ark of Beklemishev” is an autobiographical description of the author’s investigative and judicial activity. Terrible deaths, terrible portraits of psychopaths, their crimes. Heavy life and harsh nature. The author - the honorary judge - speaks of a person’s right not to be a means, but the purpose of the existence and activity of the state, in which the ideals of freedom, equality and justice constitute the highest principles of criminal justice and ensure the peace of the legal state of civil society. V. Arsentiev discusses freedom - as a personal beginning and conscience - as a moral beginning in the activities of any person, especially a judge, whose decision depends on other people. Everything told in the book is taken from personal judicial practice. The author made an attempt to show the possibility of cultural development of public relations in the field of criminal justice, thereby solving the national task - through the presumption of innocence and judicial discretion.