Based on over 130 interviews with criminals, law enforcement officials and government
representatives from post-Soviet Georgia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan, this book situates …

This article explains Georgia's achievements against rampant corruption that plagued the
country for decades. It demonstrates how Georgia has moved from being a 'failed state'to the …

This article studies the decline of a long-standing mafia known as thieves-in-law in the post-
Soviet republic of Georgia. In 2005 an anti-mafia campaign began which employed laws …

Since the Rose Revolution of 2003, the Georgian Government has made criminal justice
reform a cornerstone of its political agenda. A big part of this was the fight against organised …

This dissertation addresses organized crime in post-Soviet Eurasia (Georgia, Ukraine,
Kyrgyzstan) exploring the nexus between politics, business and crime. Based on extensive …

Protection rackets cause economic and social damage across the world. States typically
combat protection rackets using legal strategies that target the racketeers with legislation …

Georgia is the only country in the post-Soviet region where incarceration rates significantly
grew in the 2000s. Then in 2013, the prison population was halved through a mass amnesty …

This paper explores the consequences of the massive investment in criminal justice in
Georgia following the Rose Revolution of 2003. We argue that this resulted in “governing …

This paper argues that pre-adolescent peer-group socialization in Georgia still refers to
criminal subculture known as the thieves' world. Through ethnographic observation of …

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