Svetlana Stephenson

Reader at London Metropolitan University. She is a Candidate of Sociology. She started her professional career at VCIOM in 1988. Svetlana is the author of two monographs, Crossing the Line: Vagrancy, Homelessness and Social Displacement in Russia (Ashgate, 2006) and Gangs of Russia: From the Streets to the Corridors of Power (Сornell University Press, 2015), and many articles in Russian and in English on perceptions of social justice, shadow and criminal urban communities, and the problems of violence and social control.