About the book: 2021 / Vladimir Arsentiev's book "Beklemishev's Ark" is an autobiographical description of the author's investigative and judicial activities. Terrible deaths, terrible portraits of psychopaths, their crimes. Hard life and harsh nature... The author - an honorary judge - speaks about the human right to be not a means, but the goal of the existence and activity of a state in which the ideals of freedom, equality and justice constitute the highest principles of the implementation of criminal justice and ensure the tranquility of the legal state of civil society. V. Arsentiev talks about freedom - as a personal principle and conscience - as a moral principle in the activities of any person, especially a judge, on whose decisions other people depend. Everything told in the book is taken from personal judicial practice. The author has made an attempt to show the possibility of cultural development of social relations in the field of criminal justice, thereby solving a national problem - with the help of the presumption of innocence and judicial discretion.