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Justice, Crime, and Citizenship in Eurasia: A Sociolegal Perspective

Justice, Crime, and Citizenship in Eurasia: A Sociolegal Perspective

Author: Erica Marat; Lauren A. McCarthy
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781032312071
Published In: August 2022
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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What role does law play in post-communist societies? The book examines the law as a social institution, exploring how it is shaped in everyday interactions between state and society in Eurasia, organisations and individuals, and between law enforcement and other government entities. It bridges the gap between theoretically rich work on law-in-action and the empirical reality of Eurasia.

The contributions in this volume include research on policing to the legal profession, public attitudes towards law, regime support and oppositional mobilisation, crime policy, and property rights, among others. The studies shift away from the common perception that, in Eurasia, the law exists only as a tool for the state to enforce order and suppress dissent. Instead, they show through empirical analyses that citizens evade, use, reinterpret and shape the law even in authoritarian contexts—sometimes containing state violence and challenging the regime, and, other times, reinforcing state capture from below.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal Europe-Asia Studies.

Introduction

Justice, Crime and Citizenship in Eurasia: A Socio-legal Perspective

Erica Marat and Lauren A. McCarthy

1. Who Reports Crime? Citizen Engagement with the Police in Russia and Georgia

Lauren A. McCarthy, Scott Gehlbach, Timothy Frye and Noah Buckley

2. Popular Legal Attitudes and the Political Order: Comparative Evidence from Georgia, Russia and Ukraine

William M. Reisinger, Marina Zaloznaya and Vicki L. Hesli Claypool

3. Transcending Illegality in Kyrgyzstan: The Case of a Squatter Settlement in Bishkek

Eliza Isabaeva

4. Negotiating the Right to Information: Citizen–Government Interactions in the Implementation of the Regulations on Open Government Information in China

Yiyi Lu

5. Between Human Rights and Transitional Justice: The Dilemma of Constitutional Courts in Post-Communist Central Europe

Katarína Šipulová and Hubert Smekal

6. Becoming a Judge in Russia: An Analysis of Judicial Biographies

Aryna Dzmitryieva

7. Building Socialist Legality: Political Order and Institutional Development in the Soviet and Chinese Procuracies

Margaret Hanson and Michael Thompson-Brusstar

8. The Limits of Authoritarian Modernisation: Zero Tolerance Policing in Kazakhstan

Gavin Slade, Alexei Trochev and Malika Talgatova

9. Propaganda and the Police: The Softer Side of State Control in China

Suzanne E. Scoggins

10. ‘Vigilante Shows’ and Law Enforcement in Russia