We examine ongoing police reform initiatives in Armenia. Through implicit comparisons with Russia and Georgia, we assess what reforms are feasible in similar electoral authoritarian regimes. Using documentary sources, ethnographic observation, and key-informant interviews, we examine four major...

Mareile Kaufmann is a senior researcher at the Peace Research Institute Oslo. She holds a PhD in Criminology from Hamburg University. Neighboring disciplines such as critical security studies and cultural sciences equally shape her research agenda, which focuses on the meeting point between...

Entre 2011 et 2013, Ouisa Kies a mené une étude sur les processus de radicalisation en prison dans cinq établissements français. Dans la littérature, la radicalisation est considérée comme l’articulation entre idéologie extrémiste et une action violente plus ou moins organisée. L’une peut aller...