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

Dmytro Yagunov: The Wagner Phenomenon: Russian Neo-Imperialism and the Importation of Prison Subculture

The issue of Russian criminal and prison subculture and its spread is by no means historical or criminological in nature. In fact, assessing

Drug Crimes in the Light of Police Statistics for Six Months of 2025, or Can the Irrational Expenditure of State Resources Be Justified?

The 2022 police statistics demonstrate that 34,398 drug-related crimes have already been committed in 2022. In 2023, the police registered 39,124 drug-related crimes.