Lauren A Mccarthy
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 236533 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Lauren A Mccarthy |
| PRENOMES | Lauren A |
| SOBRENOME | Mccarthy |
| ASSINATURA | MCCARTHY L A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9169-4375 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 75 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2014 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Oversight of the Legal System in an Authoritarian Regime
How can citizens in authoritarian regimes exercise oversight of the legal system? I examine police and court monitoring, bottom-up oversight activities popular in pre-war Russia (2012–2022). Monitoring pushes the state to honor commitments it has made in its own laws, taking advantage of the authoritarian state’s need for information and legitimacy. Yet monitoring activities are not just about improving the state’s performance. Using interviews, …
Authoritarian Information Gathering amid Crisis
How do crises affect information gathering in authoritarian regimes? This study examines how crises impact appeal systems’ ability to collect information on everyday and crisis-related concerns. We argue that crisis immediacy and government repression shape the number and topic of appeals received. Utilizing a novel dataset of appeals submitted to Russia’s Presidential Administration, we analyze four crises: the 2018 pension reform, the COVID-19 …
A measure of justice
What can access to justice look like in an authoritarian setting? In Russia, the law allows ordinary citizens who do not have a legal education to act as so-called citizen legal advocates (CLAs) in both criminal cases and cases on administrative offenses (non-criminal infractions). Drawing on qualitative fieldwork among CLAs in training sessions and in court, we show that lay people can enhance access to justice by impacting defendants’ experienc…
Two Sides of the Same Coin? Race, Racial Resentment, and Public Opinion Toward Financial Compensation of College Athletes
The last decade has seen a series of high-profile battles over the rights of college athletes take place in the nation’s courthouses and state legislatures, and on the floor of the U.S. Congress. How has the public responded to these changes and how do they formulate their views on policies that seek to provide additional financial compensation and employment protections to college athletes? Using six years of nationally representative polling da…
Who Reports Crime? Citizen Engagement with the Police in Russia and Georgia
What factors affect citizens’ engagement with the state? We explore this question through a study of victims’ and bystanders’ willingness to report crimes to the police, using data from survey experiments conducted in Russia and Georgia. We find that citizens’ willingness to report in both countries is strongly influenced by the nature of the crime, but not generally by instruments that the state might use to encourage greater reporting. Our resu…
Justice, Crime and Citizenship in Eurasia
What role does law play in post-communist societies? The common perception is that the police are predatory (Gerber & Mendelson 2008; Zernova 2012), state officials are corrupt (Holmes 2012; Reisin
Managed Civil Society and Police Oversight in Russia
This article examines the official police oversight bodies, the ‘public councils’ under the Ministry of Internal Affairs (obshchestvennyi sovet pri MVD), using publicly available data from 40 regional councils. We find that council members are loyal and highly regarded individuals likely to be friendly to state interests. Councils primarily focus on promoting state goals, using the media to perpetuate a positive image of the police, and encouragi…
A Gendered Perspective on Human Trafficking Perpetrators
The dominant depiction of human trafficking is that of a violent man trafficking an innocent, subordinate female victim for sexual exploitation. However, this does not represent the diversity of the experience of human trafficking. Increasingly, research has suggested that women are also perpetrators of human trafficking and that men and boys are frequently victims. Using a content analysis of Russian media articles on trafficking cases from 2003…
Scorecard Diplomacy
Life after Trafficking in Azerbaijan
Assisting survivors of trafficking is considered one of the pillars of a human rights-based response Shelter, medical, psychological and legal assistance in the short term and job placement, accommodation and reunification with family and community in the long term are critical steps for helping them recover and feel in control of their lives and futures. This paper examines survivors’ experiences of trafficking and recovery in the Azerbaijani co…
Friends and Interveners
Interest groups attempt to shape the content of law and policy in a variety of venues, including the legal system. Though the bulk of research dedicated to understanding interest group participation in litigation occurs in the context of the United States, there have been growing efforts to explore this important topic from a cross-national perspective. We contribute to this literature by investigating interest group amicus curiae and intervener …
Prejudice or Principled Conservatism? Racial Resentment and White Opinion toward Paying College Athletes
Despite its widespread use in studies of race and ethnic politics, there exists a long-standing debate about whether racial resentment primarily measures antiblack prejudice or ideological conservatism. In this paper, we attempt to resolve this debate by examining racial resentment’s role in shaping white opinion on a “racialized” policy issue that involves no federal action and no government redistribution of resources: “pay for play” in college…
Transaction Costs
As primary implementers of laws on human trafficking, law enforcement helps construct how these laws are understood and applied. This article examines how this process has unfolded in Russia by looking at the phenomenon of and debates surrounding child trafficking for illegal adoption. It argues that pre-existing experience with trafficking laws and cultural narratives surrounding adoption have led law enforcement to focus on uncovering evidence …
Cooperating with the State
We examine cooperation with the state using a series of survey experiments on policing conducted in late 2011 in Moscow, Russia, where distrust of the state is high and attempts to reform the police have been ineffective. Through various vignettes that place respondents in situations in which they are the witness or victim of a crime, we experimentally manipulate crime severity, identity of the perpetrator (whether the crime is committed by a pol…
Jennifer Suchland, Economies of violence
Jennifer Suchland, Economies of violence: transnational feminism, postsocialism, and the politics of sex trafficking." Canadian Slavonic Papers, 58(4), pp. 425–426
Trafficking Justice
In response to a growing human trafficking problem and domestic and international pressure, human trafficking and the use of slave labor were first criminalized in Russia in 2003. This book explains why Russian police, prosecutors, and judges have largely ignored this new weapon in their legal arsenal, despite the fact that the law was intended to make it easier to pursue trafficking cases. The book explores how trafficking cases make their way t…
Human Trafficking and the New Slavery
Human trafficking is an issue that has grabbed the attention of the world over the past 15 years. But meaningful progress and research are still held back by a number of debates between academics, policy makers, and activists. Agreeing upon a consistent definition and methods of measuring trafficking presents a challenge, as does the continued focus on the sex trafficking of women into prostitution to the exclusion of other types of trafficking a…
Local-level law enforcement
The uchastkovyy, or beat officer, is at the front lines of Russian police work. This article investigates the general environment in which the uchastkovyy functions, using Moscow as an example. More specifically, this article examines the institutional structure within which the beat cop operates, his/her duties and resources, the quota system used to evaluate his/her performance, and the nature of the interaction between the uchastkovyy and the …
Prejudice or Principled Conservatism? Racial Resentment and White Opinion toward Paying College Athletes
Despite its widespread use in studies of race and ethnic politics, there exists a long-standing debate about whether racial resentment primarily measures antiblack prejudice or ideological conservatism. In this paper, we attempt to resolve this debate by examining racial resentment’s role in shaping white opinion on a “racialized” policy issue that involves no federal action and no government redistribution of resources: “pay for play” in college…
Human Trafficking and the New Slavery
Human trafficking is an issue that has grabbed the attention of the world over the past 15 years. But meaningful progress and research are still held back by a number of debates between academics, policy makers, and activists. Agreeing upon a consistent definition and methods of measuring trafficking presents a challenge, as does the continued focus on the sex trafficking of women into prostitution to the exclusion of other types of trafficking a…
Local-level law enforcement
The uchastkovyy, or beat officer, is at the front lines of Russian police work. This article investigates the general environment in which the uchastkovyy functions, using Moscow as an example. More specifically, this article examines the institutional structure within which the beat cop operates, his/her duties and resources, the quota system used to evaluate his/her performance, and the nature of the interaction between the uchastkovyy and the …
Who Reports Crime? Citizen Engagement with the Police in Russia and Georgia
What factors affect citizens’ engagement with the state? We explore this question through a study of victims’ and bystanders’ willingness to report crimes to the police, using data from survey experiments conducted in Russia and Georgia. We find that citizens’ willingness to report in both countries is strongly influenced by the nature of the crime, but not generally by instruments that the state might use to encourage greater reporting. Our resu…
Managed Civil Society and Police Oversight in Russia
This article examines the official police oversight bodies, the ‘public councils’ under the Ministry of Internal Affairs (obshchestvennyi sovet pri MVD), using publicly available data from 40 regional councils. We find that council members are loyal and highly regarded individuals likely to be friendly to state interests. Councils primarily focus on promoting state goals, using the media to perpetuate a positive image of the police, and encouragi…
Cooperating with the State
We examine cooperation with the state using a series of survey experiments on policing conducted in late 2011 in Moscow, Russia, where distrust of the state is high and attempts to reform the police have been ineffective. Through various vignettes that place respondents in situations in which they are the witness or victim of a crime, we experimentally manipulate crime severity, identity of the perpetrator (whether the crime is committed by a pol…
Friends and Interveners
Interest groups attempt to shape the content of law and policy in a variety of venues, including the legal system. Though the bulk of research dedicated to understanding interest group participation in litigation occurs in the context of the United States, there have been growing efforts to explore this important topic from a cross-national perspective. We contribute to this literature by investigating interest group amicus curiae and intervener …
Justice, Crime and Citizenship in Eurasia
What role does law play in post-communist societies? The common perception is that the police are predatory (Gerber & Mendelson 2008; Zernova 2012), state officials are corrupt (Holmes 2012; Reisin
A measure of justice
What can access to justice look like in an authoritarian setting? In Russia, the law allows ordinary citizens who do not have a legal education to act as so-called citizen legal advocates (CLAs) in both criminal cases and cases on administrative offenses (non-criminal infractions). Drawing on qualitative fieldwork among CLAs in training sessions and in court, we show that lay people can enhance access to justice by impacting defendants’ experienc…
A Gendered Perspective on Human Trafficking Perpetrators
The dominant depiction of human trafficking is that of a violent man trafficking an innocent, subordinate female victim for sexual exploitation. However, this does not represent the diversity of the experience of human trafficking. Increasingly, research has suggested that women are also perpetrators of human trafficking and that men and boys are frequently victims. Using a content analysis of Russian media articles on trafficking cases from 2003…
Life after Trafficking in Azerbaijan
Assisting survivors of trafficking is considered one of the pillars of a human rights-based response Shelter, medical, psychological and legal assistance in the short term and job placement, accommodation and reunification with family and community in the long term are critical steps for helping them recover and feel in control of their lives and futures. This paper examines survivors’ experiences of trafficking and recovery in the Azerbaijani co…
Human Trafficking and the New Slavery
Human trafficking is an issue that has grabbed the attention of the world over the past 15 years. But meaningful progress and research are still held back by a number of debates between academics, policy makers, and activists. Agreeing upon a consistent definition and methods of measuring trafficking presents a challenge, as does the continued focus on the sex trafficking of women into prostitution to the exclusion of other types of trafficking a…
Local-level law enforcement
The uchastkovyy, or beat officer, is at the front lines of Russian police work. This article investigates the general environment in which the uchastkovyy functions, using Moscow as an example. More specifically, this article examines the institutional structure within which the beat cop operates, his/her duties and resources, the quota system used to evaluate his/her performance, and the nature of the interaction between the uchastkovyy and the …
Trafficking Justice
In response to a growing human trafficking problem and domestic and international pressure, human trafficking and the use of slave labor were first criminalized in Russia in 2003. This book explains why Russian police, prosecutors, and judges have largely ignored this new weapon in their legal arsenal, despite the fact that the law was intended to make it easier to pursue trafficking cases. The book explores how trafficking cases make their way t…
Transaction Costs
As primary implementers of laws on human trafficking, law enforcement helps construct how these laws are understood and applied. This article examines how this process has unfolded in Russia by looking at the phenomenon of and debates surrounding child trafficking for illegal adoption. It argues that pre-existing experience with trafficking laws and cultural narratives surrounding adoption have led law enforcement to focus on uncovering evidence …
Cooperating with the State
We examine cooperation with the state using a series of survey experiments on policing conducted in late 2011 in Moscow, Russia, where distrust of the state is high and attempts to reform the police have been ineffective. Through various vignettes that place respondents in situations in which they are the witness or victim of a crime, we experimentally manipulate crime severity, identity of the perpetrator (whether the crime is committed by a pol…
Jennifer Suchland, Economies of violence
Jennifer Suchland, Economies of violence: transnational feminism, postsocialism, and the politics of sex trafficking." Canadian Slavonic Papers, 58(4), pp. 425–426
Friends and Interveners
Interest groups attempt to shape the content of law and policy in a variety of venues, including the legal system. Though the bulk of research dedicated to understanding interest group participation in litigation occurs in the context of the United States, there have been growing efforts to explore this important topic from a cross-national perspective. We contribute to this literature by investigating interest group amicus curiae and intervener …
Prejudice or Principled Conservatism? Racial Resentment and White Opinion toward Paying College Athletes
Despite its widespread use in studies of race and ethnic politics, there exists a long-standing debate about whether racial resentment primarily measures antiblack prejudice or ideological conservatism. In this paper, we attempt to resolve this debate by examining racial resentment’s role in shaping white opinion on a “racialized” policy issue that involves no federal action and no government redistribution of resources: “pay for play” in college…
Life after Trafficking in Azerbaijan
Assisting survivors of trafficking is considered one of the pillars of a human rights-based response Shelter, medical, psychological and legal assistance in the short term and job placement, accommodation and reunification with family and community in the long term are critical steps for helping them recover and feel in control of their lives and futures. This paper examines survivors’ experiences of trafficking and recovery in the Azerbaijani co…
Scorecard Diplomacy
Justice, Crime and Citizenship in Eurasia
What role does law play in post-communist societies? The common perception is that the police are predatory (Gerber & Mendelson 2008; Zernova 2012), state officials are corrupt (Holmes 2012; Reisin
Managed Civil Society and Police Oversight in Russia
This article examines the official police oversight bodies, the ‘public councils’ under the Ministry of Internal Affairs (obshchestvennyi sovet pri MVD), using publicly available data from 40 regional councils. We find that council members are loyal and highly regarded individuals likely to be friendly to state interests. Councils primarily focus on promoting state goals, using the media to perpetuate a positive image of the police, and encouragi…
A Gendered Perspective on Human Trafficking Perpetrators
The dominant depiction of human trafficking is that of a violent man trafficking an innocent, subordinate female victim for sexual exploitation. However, this does not represent the diversity of the experience of human trafficking. Increasingly, research has suggested that women are also perpetrators of human trafficking and that men and boys are frequently victims. Using a content analysis of Russian media articles on trafficking cases from 2003…
Who Reports Crime? Citizen Engagement with the Police in Russia and Georgia
What factors affect citizens’ engagement with the state? We explore this question through a study of victims’ and bystanders’ willingness to report crimes to the police, using data from survey experiments conducted in Russia and Georgia. We find that citizens’ willingness to report in both countries is strongly influenced by the nature of the crime, but not generally by instruments that the state might use to encourage greater reporting. Our resu…
Two Sides of the Same Coin? Race, Racial Resentment, and Public Opinion Toward Financial Compensation of College Athletes
The last decade has seen a series of high-profile battles over the rights of college athletes take place in the nation’s courthouses and state legislatures, and on the floor of the U.S. Congress. How has the public responded to these changes and how do they formulate their views on policies that seek to provide additional financial compensation and employment protections to college athletes? Using six years of nationally representative polling da…
A measure of justice
What can access to justice look like in an authoritarian setting? In Russia, the law allows ordinary citizens who do not have a legal education to act as so-called citizen legal advocates (CLAs) in both criminal cases and cases on administrative offenses (non-criminal infractions). Drawing on qualitative fieldwork among CLAs in training sessions and in court, we show that lay people can enhance access to justice by impacting defendants’ experienc…
Oversight of the Legal System in an Authoritarian Regime
How can citizens in authoritarian regimes exercise oversight of the legal system? I examine police and court monitoring, bottom-up oversight activities popular in pre-war Russia (2012–2022). Monitoring pushes the state to honor commitments it has made in its own laws, taking advantage of the authoritarian state’s need for information and legitimacy. Yet monitoring activities are not just about improving the state’s performance. Using interviews, …
Authoritarian Information Gathering amid Crisis
How do crises affect information gathering in authoritarian regimes? This study examines how crises impact appeal systems’ ability to collect information on everyday and crisis-related concerns. We argue that crisis immediacy and government repression shape the number and topic of appeals received. Utilizing a novel dataset of appeals submitted to Russia’s Presidential Administration, we analyze four crises: the 2018 pension reform, the COVID-19 …
Political science (18 obras) · Law (17 obras) · Law (15 obras) · Criminology (12 obras) · Sociology (11 obras) · Politics (8 obras) · Human trafficking (6 obras) · Psychology (6 obras) · Sex work and related issues (6 obras) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (5 obras)