The Wild East: Crime and Lawlessness in Post-communist Russia: Crime and Lawlessness in Post-communist Russia

by Viktor Sergeev

Overview

This analysis of the corruption and violent crime in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia, asks how it is possible to label and control certain behaviours as deviant in a context where the legal and moral-ethical norms of a collapsed regime have been discredited but not replaced.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780765602312
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/31/1997
Series:	Japan in the Modern World (Hardcover)
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Lexile:	1470L (what's this?)
Age Range:	18 Years

Editorial Reviews

Russian historian and physicist Surgeyev (a true social scientist) looks at crime and its causes in post-Soviet Russia from two points of view: as a cultural phenomenon; and through the prism of the law and its interpretation by legal authorities. He uses comparative analysis of models of criminality in the history of European thinking to deconstruct the concept that criminality in societies in transition is an institutional phenomenon, and to reflect the ontology of this phenomenon. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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