Alexander S MikhlinAlexander Solomonovich Mikhlin is one of Russia's most distinguished criminologists. Author of more than 400 scholarly monographs, textbooks, and articles published in Russia, other CIS countries, the United States, England, Germany, Canada, Belgium,Romania, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Bulgaria, he served as a member of the drafting team which prepared the 1997 Criminal Executory Code of the Russian Federation. A doctor of legal sciences (1974), professor (1972), and Meritorious Figure of Science of Russia (1989), awarded the Order of Honour (1996), Professor Mikhlin is a Senior Scientific Associate with the All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation and a member of scientific-advisory councils in the State Duma and the Soviet of the Federation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation and the Supreme Court of Russia. In recent years the author has dedicated his research to capital punishment, life imprisonment, and the modernisation of Russian legislation on criminal law and criminal executory law. Read More Read Less