Louise Shelley /

Louise Shelley, a professor at George Mason University in Virginia, is founder and director of the Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center (TraCCC). After studying at Moscow State University in the 1970s, she was expelled for her reports on crime. As the Soviet Union began to crumble, she saw organized crime expanding fast. She followed it from Russia and Georgia into Europe, Israel, and the United States. Since the early 1990s, she has run research programs with Russian colleagues. Shelley is completing a book on human trafficking for the Cambridge University Press.

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Contributions

Crime and Non-Punishment

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