Book Search

1. Organized Crime and Corruption in Georgia

   Edited by Louise Shelley, Erik R. Scott, Anthony Latta

   Series: Routledge Transnational Crime and Corruption

   Georgia is one of the most corrupt and crime-ridden nations of the former Soviet Union. In the Soviet period, Georgians played a major role in organized crime groups and the shadow economy operating throughout the Soviet Union, and in the post-Soviet period, Georgia continues to be important source...

   Published April 24th 2013 by Routledge
2. Human Security, Transnational Crime and Human Trafficking

   Asian and Western Perspectives

   Edited by Shiro Okubo, Louise Shelley

   Series: Routledge Transnational Crime and Corruption

   In recent years, drug use, illegal migration and human trafficking have all become more common in Asia, North America and Asia: the problems of organized crime and human trafficking are no longer confined to operating at the traditional regional level. This book fills a gap in the current...

   Published January 31st 2011 by Routledge
3. Policing Soviet Society

   The Evolution of State Control

   By Louise Shelley

   Since its creation immediately after the Russian revolution,the militia has had a broad range of social,political and economic functions necessary to direct and control a highly centralized socialist state.However,as the communst party lost its legitimacy the militia was increasingly thrust into...

   Published December 20th 1995 by Routledge