By Right of War: The Discipline and Practice of International Law in Imperial Russia, 1868–1917 …these normative principles shaped actual policy. It takes the form of military and political history, examining the Russian army in three cases of military occupation: Bulgaria and Anatolia in 1877–78;…
Criminal Retaliation: A Qualitative Study of Social Control Beyond the Law Despite its preeminent role in regulating disputes between and among street criminals, retaliation has received scant attention from criminological researchers. Existing studies explore retaliation only tangentially, with little or no…
Ethnic Violence vs. Imperial Segregations: Multinational Criminality in the Russian Imperial City as a Space of Conflict and Cooperation …be unaware of the competing projects of political or national mobilization); the middle ground (a peculiar mechanism of creative mutual misunderstanding ); and criminal violence. In particular, ethnically marked criminal violence…
The Nazi Concentration Camps …of the concentration camps in the final years before the outbreak of World War II were probably not political prisoners or Jews but social outsiders pursued as “criminals” and “asocials.”…
Drug Violence, Fear of Crime, and the Transformation of Everyday Life in the Mexican Metropolis …unique contribution to the fields of urban and political sociology by revealing this new pattern of exacerbated urban inequality raising new challenges for urban inclusion and democracy in Latin America….
“There is Still No Justice Here!”: Theorizing Women’s Movements’ Influence on Postwar African States Enforcement of Gender-Based Violence Laws …not sufficient for their institutionalization. Instead, strong pressure from domestic actors, particularly women’s organizations, and favorable political and institutional conditions were needed for rapid institutionalization. Furthermore, in both countries, officers…
King George’s Generals: How the British Army Lost America, 1774-1781 …British commanders I study lay in their inability to translate operational success into political outcomes by dismantling the revolutionary government they fought. Survival meant success for the fledgling United States….
Of Rebels, Spirits, and Social Engineers: The Problems with Ending Female Genital Cutting …role of Africans in transforming and ending cutting was both unacknowledged and unexamined. My book The Twilight of Cutting: African Activism and Life after NGOs (2017) argues that the political…
At the Crossroads …local political movements—to close Rikers Island, to halt the building of new jails, and to defund the police. These developments serve as backdrop for a disconcerting increase in the number…
“True Equity Means Everyone’s Life Has Equal Value”: A Conversation with Shani Buggs …can then use the social and political capital of those leaders to help curb violence among their followers. Violence has evolved in a number of different ways since the 1990s….
