‘Two Prosecutors’: A Movie About a Russia That Cannot Bring Itself to Be Any Different
There are works that do not require a review in the conventional sense — they require a testimony. Two Prosecutors is precisely such
Robert Martinson: Probation or Parole v. Prison
But by far the most extensive and important work that has been done on the effect of community-based treatments has been done in
Dmytro Yagunov: Beyond Technological Determinism: Russia’s Adaptive Imperial Flexibility
In this article, we want to challenge traditional academic views on Russian imperialism, emphasising that contemporary analyses fail to take into account the
Ukrainian Prison Reform: A Thorny Path from the 1990s to the Present Day (In Memory of General Ivan Shtanko)
When we talk about the thorny path of the Ukrainian penitentiary system and the corresponding penitentiary reform — and the fact that it
Green Party Councillor Demands Pardon for Witches
A Green Party councillor has demanded the pardon of 17th-century witches who were executed for “misogyny, not magic”. Stuart Jeffery, the leader of
‘Zhigany’ and “Urki”: From the White Guards to ‘Thieves-in-Law’
The modern self-designations of ‘thieves’ such as ‘law-abiding’, ‘lawful thieves’, and ‘thieves-in-law’ also originate from the pre-Revolutionary subculture of the ‘vagrants’. The category
Dmytro Yagunov: Informal prison hierarchies in the 21 century: subculture, trends and social control (The 2025 Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology)
In this study, we raise the issues of the origins of Soviet criminal and prison subculture, the corresponding informal prisoner hierarchies, and the