Arising from Soviet prison camps in the 1930s, career criminals known as ‘thieves-in-law’ exist in one form or another throughout post-Soviet countries and have evolved into major transnational organised criminal networks since the dissolution of the USSR 다운로드. Intriguingly, this criminal fraternity established a particular stronghold in the Soviet republic of Georgia where, by the 1990s, they had formed a mafia network of criminal associations that attempted to monopolize protection in both legal and illegal sectors of the economy 치즈인더트랩 웹툰 다운로드. This saturation was to such an extent that in 2005, Mikhail Saakashvili, the current president of Georgia, claimed that ‘in the past 15 years… Georgia was not ruled by [former President] Shevardnadze, but by thieves-in-law.’
Following peaceful regime change with 2003’s Rose Revolution, Georgia prioritised reform of the criminal justice system generally, and an attack on the thieves-in-law specifically, using anti-organized crime policies that emulated approaches in Italy and America 다운로드. Criminalization of association with thieves-in-law, radical reforms of the police and prisons, educational change, and controversial, draconian and extra-legal measures, amounted to arguably the most sustained anti-mafia policy implemented in any post-Soviet country – a policy the government believed would pull Georgia out of the Soviet past, declaring it a resounding success 헬로 카봇 다운로드.
Utilising unique access to primary sources of data, including police files, court cases, archives and expert interviews, Reorganizing Crime: Mafia and Anti-Mafia in Post-Soviet Georgia charts both the longevity and the sudden decline of the thieves-in-law, exploring the changes in the resilience levels of members carrying this elite criminal status, and how this resilience has been so effectively compromised since 2005 팝업 동영상 다운로드. Through an innovative and engaging analysis of this little known and often misunderstood cohort of organised crime, this book engages with contemporary debates on understanding 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 다운로드.
Slade, G. (2014). Reorganizing Crime: Mafia and Anti-mafia in Post-Soviet Georgia. Oxford University Press 토도우 다운로드.
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