Organized Crime Prison And Post Soviet Societies

Author : Alain Touraine,Anton Oleinik
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351777551

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Organized Crime, Prison and Post-Soviet Societies by Alain Touraine,Anton Oleinik Pdf

This title was first published in 2003. The "Red Mafia" in Russia have become the subject of increasing international interest and considerable misinterpretation. After well-received editions in Russian, French and Italian, Anton Oleinik's study of Russian prisons, in which he explores the social roots of organized crime in post-Soviet societies, is now published in English. This English edition includes a postscript on the Moscow terrorist crisis of 2002. Oleinik's analysis reveals prison society as a mirror of broader Russian society - characterized by the absence of the state as an organizer of social practices. He builds on this to make a central distinction between two types of societies - the modern "large" society and the "small" society, like Russia, that has only been partially modernized, and in which the world of everyday life, experiences and relationships remains entirely separated from the official aims of modernization and efficiency. Oleinik is interested in the void between these two separate worlds, a void he sees being filled in Russia by the Mafia.

Author : Alain Touraine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1138710938

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Organized Crime, Prison and Post-Soviet Societies by Alain Touraine Pdf

"Cover"--"Half Title" -- "Dedication" -- "Title" -- "Copyright" -- "Contents" -- "List of Figures" -- "List of Tables" -- "Foreword by Alain Touraine" -- "Acknowledgments" -- "Introduction" -- "1 Understanding the 'Small' Society" -- "2 Penal Society in Russia" -- "3 Generalization Test: A Torn Society" -- "4 Institutional Change: Two Cases Compared" -- "Conclusion: About the Concept of the Mafia in the Post-Soviet Context" -- "Postscript" -- "Appendix" -- "Bibliography

Author : Mark Galeotti
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351550352

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Russian and Post-Soviet Organized Crime by Mark Galeotti Pdf

A timely look at a widespread yet largely uninvestigated area of Russian life. Chapters include: consideration of the history and basis in culture for the organization of crime in Russia; the actions of emigres to the USA; and the development of modern sophistications of exchange and networking that currently blight privatization. Diverse perspectives, including comparative, structural and ethnic frameworks, give unprecedented national and international insights into a pervasive element of modern Russia.

Author : Paul Bolan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1329905407

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Thieves in Law by Paul Bolan Pdf

Organized crime in Russia began in the imperial period of the Tsars, but it was not until the Soviet era that vory v zakone ("thieves-in-law") emerged as leaders of prison groups in gulags, and their honor code became more defined. After World War II, the death of Joseph Stalin, and the fall of the Soviet Union, more gangs emerged in a flourishing black market, exploiting the unstable governments of the former Republics, and at its highest point, even controlling as much as two-thirds of the Russian economy.

Author : Mark Galeotti
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300186826

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The Vory by Mark Galeotti Pdf

The first English-language book to document the men who emerged from the gulags to become Russia's much-feared crime class: the vory v zakone Mark Galeotti is the go-to expert on organized crime in Russia, consulted by governments and police around the world. Now, Western readers can explore the fascinating history of the vory v zakone, a group that has survived and thrived amid the changes brought on by Stalinism, the Cold War, the Afghan War, and the end of the Soviet experiment. The vory--as the Russian mafia is also known--was born early in the twentieth century, largely in the Gulags and criminal camps, where they developed their unique culture. Identified by their signature tattoos, members abided by the thieves' code, a strict system that forbade all paid employment and cooperation with law enforcement and the state. Based on two decades of on-the-ground research, Galeotti's captivating study details the vory's journey to power from their early days to their adaptation to modern-day Russia's free-wheeling oligarchy and global opportunities beyond.

Author : A. Kupatadze
Publisher : Springer
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230361393

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Organized Crime, Political Transitions and State Formation in Post-Soviet Eurasia by A. Kupatadze Pdf

Based on over 130 interviews with criminals, law enforcement officials and government representatives from post-Soviet Georgia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan, this book situates organized crime in the debate on state formation and examines the diverging patterns in organized crime following the aftermath of these countries' Coloured Revolutions.

Author : Dr Gavin Slade
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0199674647

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Reorganizing Crime by Dr Gavin Slade Pdf

Through an innovative and engaging analysis of an often misunderstood cohort of organised crime in Georgia, this book explores the resilience of so-called dark networks, such as organized crime groups and terrorist cells, and tests the theories of how and why success in challenging such organizations can occur.

Author : Gavin Slade
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1644697580

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Reorganizing Crime by Gavin Slade Pdf

Thieves-in-law' (vory-v-zakone in Russian) are career criminals belonging to a criminal fraternity that began in the 1930s in the Soviet prison camps. For reasons that the book attempts to explain, thieves-in-law became exceptionally prevalent in the former Soviet republic of Georgia. Here, by the 1990s, they formed a mafia network--criminal associations that attempt to monopolize protection in legal and illegal sectors of the economy. At this time, the mafia was in many ways more powerful than the state. In 2005, however, anti-organized crime policy was transferred from Italy and America to Georgia. Legislation targeting the thieves-in-law directly was successful in causing a steep decline in mafia influence and organized criminal activity. This book asks how and why this occurred. In particular, why did the thieves-in-law not resist the attack on them successfully? Based on extensive fieldwork and utilizing unique access to primary sources of data, such as police files, court cases, archives, and expert interviews, the book provides a case study of varying organized criminal resilience to state attack. It studies the dynamics of changing mafia activities, recruitment practices, and organization as these relate to changes in the socio-economic environment and, in particular, anti-organized crime policy in what is the first sustained, directed anti-mafia policy implemented in a post-Soviet country.

Author : Stephen Handelman
Publisher : London : Michael Joseph
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105009654356

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Comrade Criminal by Stephen Handelman Pdf

SCOTT (Copy 1): From the John Holmes Library Collectiion.

Author : Todd S. Foglesong
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Crime
ISBN : PURD:32754074483664

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Crime, Criminal Justice and Criminology in Post-Soviet Ukraine by Todd S. Foglesong Pdf

Author : Mark Vincent
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350142732

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Criminal Subculture in the Gulag by Mark Vincent Pdf

Despite growing academic interest in the Gulag, our knowledge of the camps as a lived experience remains relatively incomplete. Criminal Subculture in the Gulag, in its sophisticated analysis of crime, punishment and everyday life in Soviet labour camps, rectifies this. From Gulag journals and song collections to tattoo drawings and dictionaries of slang, Mark Vincent draws on often-overlooked archival material from the Moscow Criminological Bureau to reconstruct a fuller picture of Gulag daily life and society. In thematic chapters, Vincent maps the Gulag 'penal arc' of prisoners across initiation tests, means of communication, the importance of card playing, punishment rituals and the notorious 1948-52 cyka ('bitches') internal prison war between military veterans and vory-v-zakone. Most importantly, this timely examination of crime and punishment in modern Russia also highlights the lines of continuity between the Gulag systems, late Imperial Katorga,and today's Russian mafia. As such, this impressively interdisciplinary volume is important reading for all scholars of 20th-century Russia as well as those interested in international criminality and penology.

Author : V. Shlapentokh,Joshau Woods
Publisher : Springer
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2007-11-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230609693

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Contemporary Russia as a Feudal Society by V. Shlapentokh,Joshau Woods Pdf

The book offers a theoretical discussion of the feudal model and a preliminary application of the model to post-Soviet Russia. In addition to a review of the feudal model as an ideal type, the author explains the analytical benefits of drawing comparisons between countries and across historical contexts. Specifically, contemporary Russia is compared to Western European countries during the Middle Ages and to the Soviet period in Russian history. The book is devoted to illuminating the most important political, social and economic characteristics of contemporary Russian society.

Author : Françoise Daucé,Elisabeth Sieca-Kozlowski
Publisher : ibidem-Verlag / ibidem Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783838256160

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Dedovshchina in the Post-Soviet Military. Hazing of Russian Army Conscripts in a Comparative Perspective by Françoise Daucé,Elisabeth Sieca-Kozlowski Pdf

In contemporary armies, violence among soldiers seems to be a universal phenomenon found in both professional and drafted armies. However, the comparison of violent practices in various armies around the world allows us to identify specific features linked to those countries' sociological, political or anthropological contexts. Hazing, for example, seems to be more violent in the armies of transitional societies (Russia, Eastern Europe, Latin America), where social tensions encountered by citizens in their daily lives are carried over to, and sometimes intensified in, the military. The comparison of Russian dedovshchina with the situation in other countries makes it possible to identify universal, transitional and national characteristics of military violence.Contents: Konstantin Bannikov on the consequences of the spread throughout society of archaic violence produced by the Russian army; Anna Colin Lebedev on the perception of military violence in Russian society; Anton Oleynik on informal relationships among prisoners and conscripts; Kirill Podrabinek on the reasons of the prevalence of dedovshchina in the post-Soviet context; Igor Obraztsov on the historical roots of dedovshchina; Vadim Mikhailin on the role of language in the military milieu; Julie Elkner on the Committee of Soldiers’ Mothers; Bakit Katchekeyev on hazing in the Kyrgyz army; Irakli Sesiashvili on hazing in the Georgian army; Hana Cervinkova on hazing in the Czech army; James Wither on bullying in the British army; Eduardo Paes-Machado & Carlos Linhares de Albuquerque on hazing in the Brazilian police; Joris Van Bladel on dedovshchina and the all-volunteer force.

Author : Laura Piacentini
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134044597

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Surviving Russian Prisons by Laura Piacentini Pdf

What do Russian prisons look like? Who is sent to prison in Russia? How is punishment allocated and administered? This pioneering book aims to answer these and other questions by embarking on a journey that begins by exploring how the prisons have survived the collapse of the USSR, and ends with a discussion of global penal politics. It is the first book to have been written in English on penal practices in the contemporary Russian prison system. Surviving Russian Prisons focuses in particular on the reality of work and labour within Russian prisons, exploring its changing function. From being for much of the twentieth century a major activity as well as an ideological justification for prison regimes, its main function now has been to enable prisoners to survive through participating in a barter economy. In exploring the microworlds of the Russian prison this book at the same time presents new evidence and offers fresh insight into how prisons are governed in societies undergoing turbulent social and political transformation; it explores how current practices in relation to prisoners' work comply with international regulations designed to promote humane containment and positive custody; and debates the nature of knowledge on penal discourse in transitional states.

Author : Laima Zilinskiene,Melanie Ilic
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000516180

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Soviet and Post-Soviet Lithuania – Generational Experiences by Laima Zilinskiene,Melanie Ilic Pdf

This book explores the impact on different generations of Lithuanians of the fifty-year Soviet modernisation project which was implemented in Lithuania from 1940 to 1991. It reveals the specific characteristics of ‘the last Soviet generation’, born in the 1970s, and sets this generation apart from those who were born earlier and later. It analyses changes in attitudes, choices and relationships in a variety of social spheres and contexts and the adaptation skills which were required during the late Soviet and post-Soviet transformation processes. Overall, it presents a great deal of detail on the social experiences of different generations in late Soviet and post-Soviet society.