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

‘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