Sally Stoecker - Human Traffic and Transnational Crime: Eurasian and American Perspectives

Liudmila Erokhina holds a candidates degree in philosophy from Moscow State University and serves as senior research fellow at the Vladivostok Center for the Study of Organized Crime. She is a member of the Russian Federation Dumas working group on the creation of an antihuman trafficking law. In 2002, she was the recipient of a four-month IREX Contemporary Issues Fellowship to conduct research into the recruitment of children into sexual exploitation and the sex tourism industry at the Transnational Crime and Corruption Center (TraCCC).

Mikhail Kleimenov holds a Ph.D. in legal sciences and is a professor and distinguished scholar of the Russian Federation. He works at the Omsk Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. Kleimenov graduated from the Omsk Militia High School and received his college-level degrees at the All-Union Science and Research Institute of the USSR. His main academic interests include criminology, ethnology, sociology, religion studies, and statistics. Kleimenov is the author of 130 published research papers and is the vice president of the Russian Criminological Association.

Olga Pyshchulina is a candidate of sciences in sociology and a senior consultant for the Department of Social Relations and Civil Society at the National Institute for Strategic Research of the President of Ukraine in Kyiv, Ukraine. She is recognized as a leading Ukrainian expert in illegal migration and human trafficking. She is coauthor of Ukraines first research study on human trafficking, sponsored by the International Organization for Migration in 1997. Pyshchulina is also the director of the nongovernmental organization Humanitarian Initiative.

Anna Repetskaia holds her doctorate in judicial science and is a full professor and chair of criminal law and criminology in the Department of Judicial Investigations at Baikal State University of Economics and Law. Since 1995, she has served as director of the Irkutsk Center for the Study of Organized Crime and Corruption. Her main academic interests include organized crime and corruption and issues of victimology in fighting crime.

Stanislav Shamkov is a senior legal counsel for the Transportation Department of the West Siberian branch of Russias Ministry of Internal Affairs. He works in the capacities of analyst, manager, tutor, team leader, researcher, and legal counsel. Shamkov received his university-level training in military operations, engineering, and law, and recently completed an FBI course on combating computer crime. He is the author of twelve research papers and twenty written works on incorporating research into practical work.

Louise Shelley is the founder and director of the Transnational Crime and Corruption Center (TraCCC) and a leading U.S. expert on organized crime and corruption in the former Soviet Union. Shelley is a professor in the Department of Justice, Law, and Society (School of Public Affairs) and the School of International Service at American University. Shelley received her undergraduate degree (cum laude) from Cornell University in penology and Russian literature. She holds an M.A. in criminology and a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Pennsylvania.

Sally Stoecker is a consultant to the Transnational Crime and Corruption Center (TraCCC). From 1999 to 2002 she led two major projects on human trafficking sponsored by the U.S. Department of State. Before coming to American University in 1995, she worked for thirteen years as a research associate at the RAND Corporation in Washington, D.C. She holds a Ph.D. in international relations from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University.

Elena Tiuriukanova holds a degree from the Department of Demography of the Economics School of Moscow State University. In 1989, she received her candidates degree by defending her thesis on family economic demographics. Since 1990, she has been employed at the Russian Academy of Sciences Institute of Socio-Economic Population Issues, where she has been utilizing her extensive knowledge of economics, demography, and sociology to study complex and multidisciplinary issues of population migration. In 2003, she finished her doctoral degree work and is currently completing her doctoral dissertation.

Beatrix Siman Zakhari is academic director of both the Justice and the Law Enforcement: Liberty versus Security topics at the Washington Semester Program of American University. She earned her B.A. in sociology from Wilkes College and her doctoral degree in sociology with an emphasis on criminology from the University of Pennsylvania. The topic of her dissertation was crime during disasters. She has also studied decision-making processes among capital case jurors.

Selected Bibliography

Alexander, Priscilla. Prostitution: A Difficult Issue for Feminists. In Sex Work: Writings by Women in the Sex Industry. Edited by Frederique Delacoste and Priscilla Alexander. Pittsburgh, Pa.: Cleis Press, 1987.

Altink, Sietske. Stolen Lives: Trading Women into Sex and Slavery. London: Scarlet Press, 1995.

Andreas, Peter, and Timothy Snyder. The Wall around the West: State Borders and Immigration Controls in North America and Europe. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000.