Gavin Slade is a post-doctoral fellow at the Freie Universitat in Berlin. He was formerly assistant professor of criminology at the University of Toronto. He is the author of a new book on organised crime in Georgia, Reorganizing Crime: Mafia and Anti-Mafia in Post-Soviet Georgia (Oxford University Press, 2013). His other work includes "The Threat of the Thief: Who Has Normative Influence in Georgian Society?" (Global Crime, 8/2, May 2007) and "Georgia's war on crime: creating security in a post-revolutionary environment" (European Security, 21/1, March 2012)
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Published in: HomeThe failed "mental revolution": Georgia, crime and criminal justiceCrime has been near the top of Georgia's political agenda for a decade. But successive governments have still to...
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Published in: HomeGeorgia and migration: a policy trap
Europe's politics of migration control are being exported to Georgia with potentially dangerous results, says Gavin Slade.
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Published in: HomeGeorgia: politics of punishment
Behind Georgia's prison-abuse scandal lies a large-scale, self-funding penal system whose effects - not least...
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Published in: HomeGeorgia's prisons: roots of scandal
The exposure of violent abuse in the Georgian prison system has shocked its people and rocked the government of...
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Published in: HomeRussia: crisis, crime, and police reform
The economic recession in Russia has not produced the expected rise in organised crime. The answer to this conundrum...
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Published in: HomeGeorgia’s mafia: the politics of survival
A prominent feature of Georgian life both before and after the Soviet period has been the influence of a powerful...