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Lauren A. McCarthy - Trafficking Justice: How Russian Police Enforce New Laws, from Crime to Courtroom - 9780801453892 - V9780801453892
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Trafficking Justice: How Russian Police Enforce New Laws, from Crime to Courtroom

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Description for Trafficking Justice: How Russian Police Enforce New Laws, from Crime to Courtroom Hardback. Num Pages: 304 pages, 28, 2 black & white line drawings, 21 black & white tables, 5 charts. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; JKSW1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 241 x 26. Weight in Grams: 594.

In response to a growing human trafficking problem and domestic and international pressure, human trafficking and the use of slave labor were first criminalized in Russia in 2003. In Trafficking Justice, Lauren A. McCarthy explains why Russian police, prosecutors, and judges have largely ignored this new weapon in their legal arsenal, despite the fact that the law was intended to make it easier to pursue trafficking cases.Using a combination of interview data, participant observation, and an original dataset of more than 5,500 Russian news media articles on human trafficking cases, McCarthy explores how trafficking cases make their way through the ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801453892
SKU
V9780801453892
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-15

About Lauren A. McCarthy
Lauren A. McCarthy is Assistant Professor of Political Science and Legal Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Reviews for Trafficking Justice: How Russian Police Enforce New Laws, from Crime to Courtroom
In a fine addition to the literature on how Russian governance really works, McCarthy traces this laxity to what she calls 'institutional machinery': incentives, structures, and a culture operating within Russian legal and judicial institutions that militate against the strenuous enforcement of new rules that introduce complex choices and burdensome procedures on law enforcement agencies.
Robert Legvold
Foreign ... Read more

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