Svetlana Stephenson
Dr Svetlana Stephenson is Senior Lecturer in International Comparative
Sociology at London Metropolitan University. She worked at the Russian Centre for Public Opinion Research (Moscow) and Universities of Essex and Luton. She has researched urban social organisation in Moscow and written on disadvantaged social groups (sex workers, street children and homeless people). She has recently finished a two-year research project on "Violent street groups and organised crime in Russia" funded by the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation.
Contact
Email. s.stephenson@londonmet.ac.uk
Tel. 020 7133 5030
Publications
Books
Stephenson, S., The dog that could not bark, in R.Sollund, ed., Speciesism
and Ecological Crime, Nova Publishers, forthcoming.
Stephenson, S. (2008), Searching for home. Street youth and organized
crime in Russia, in D.Brotherton and M.Flynn, eds, Globalizing the
Streets. Cross- Cultural Perspectives on Youth,
Social Control, and Empowerment, New York: Columbia University Press,
pp.78-92.
Stephenson, S. (2008). Russian gangs, in D.Brotherton and L.Kontos, eds.
Encyclopedia of gangs, Greenwood Press, pp. 214-216.
Stephenson, S. (2006), Crossing the Line. Vagrancy, Homelessness and
Social Displacement in Russia, Ashgate, Aldershot.
Stephenson, S. (2003), Street children in Moscow: using and creating
social capital. In T.Horowitz, B. Kotik-Friedgut, S. Hoffman (eds.) From
Pacesetters to Dropouts: Post-Soviet Youth in Comparative Perspective (New
York: The Rowan and Littlefield.
Stephenson, S. (2003) Homelessness in Russia: the mechanisms of social
displacement, in R Bradshaw , N Manning and S Thompstone (eds), After the
Fall: Central and Eastern Europe since the Collapse of Communism,
St.Petersburg - Nottingham, Olearius Press, 174-192
Herrmann, P., Stephenson, S. and Geoghegan, M. (2002), New citizenship by
new ways of economic integration, Social Work in Europe, vol.9, No.2,
pp.23-37.
Stephenson, S. (2002) Child labour in the Russian Federation,
International Labour Organisation working paper, Geneva
Stephenson, Svetlana Street children in Moscow: using and creating social capital. The Sociological Review, Vol.49, No. 4, pp.530-547, 2001
Stephenson, Svetlana Civil society and its agents in the postcommunist world - the case of the Russian voluntary sector, Social Policy Review, No.12, pp. 272-294, 2001.
Stephenson, Svetlana The abandoned children of Russia: from "privileged class" to "underclass". In Webber, S. and Liikanen,I. eds. Education and Civic Culture in Post-Communist Countries. Palgrave, Basingstoke and SSEES, London, pp.187-203, 2001
Stephenson, Svetlana Prostitution and young people in Russia. In D.Barrett et al., eds., Youth Prostitution in the New Europe, Russell House Publishing, pp. 108-126, 2000
Conference Paper
31 August - 3 September 2005 / Krakow
Presented a paper, "Searching for Home: Street Youth and Organised Crime in Russia" at the annual conference of the European Society of Criminology
Publications in Russia
Stephenson, S. (forthcoming), Rebiata s nashego dvora.
Podrostkovo-molodyozhnie gruppirovki v Moskve [The guys from our
courtyard. Street territorial groups in Moscow], Ethnographic Review ,
Moscow
Stephenson S. (forthcoming), Ulichnie subkultury v Moskve [Street
subcultures in Moscow], in D. Gromov, ed. Molodyozhnie subkulturi Moskvy.
Stephenson, S. (2006), Kazanskii Leviathan: Molodyozhnie Territorialnie
Gruppirovki i Problema Sotsialnogo Poriadka [The Kazan Leviathan: Youth
Street Gangs and the Problem of Social Order], Otechestvennie Zapiski,
vol. 30, No.3, pp. 97 - 110.
Stephenson, S. (2006), Bezdomnost’ [Homelessness], The Russian
Encyclopedia, Moscow: Russian Encyclopedia.
