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Author:   Vera Mironova (Associate Fellow, Davis Center, Associate Fellow, Davis Center, Harvard University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 16.10cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 24.20cm
Weight:   0.614kg
ISBN:  

9780197645659

ISBN 10:   0197645658
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   10 July 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface Introduction 1. Theory 2. History of the Vory Criminal Organization 3. Prison Criminal Leadership 4. Lower Class of Inmates 5. Prison Criminal Law Enforcement 6. Prison Criminal Economy 7. Everyday Life Behind Bars 8. Conflict with Prison Authorities: Getting Power 9. Conflict with Prison Authorities: Losing Power 10 Problems within the Vory Criminal Organization 11. Prison Islamist Jamaats 12. Islamist Jamaat Rise to Power 13. Jamaat Conflict with the Criminal Organization 14. Vory Criminal Organization Resurgence 15. Neo-Nazis Behind Bars Conclusion

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Vera Mironova, PhD, is an Associate Fellow at Harvard University and is famous for her extensive in-depth ethnographic fieldwork with armed groups in active conflict zones, terrorist sleeping cells, and criminal organizations. She conducted fieldwork in numerous active conflict zones and post-conflict regions all over the world including in Syria, Iraq, Sudan, DRC Congo, and Azerbaijan. From 2016 to 2017, she was embedded with Iraqi Special Operations Forces during the Mosul Operation and before that, with ultra-right Ukrainian armed groups in Donbas. And since 2018 she conducted extensive interviews with members of criminal organizations in former Soviet Union. She is an author of the award-winning book From Freedom Fighters to Jihadists. Human Resources of Non-State Armed Groups (Oxford 2019).

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