Svetlana Stephenson London Metropolitan University United Kingdom
Svetlana Stephenson is Professor of Sociology at London Metropolitan University. Her books include Gangs of Russia. From the Streets to the Corridors of Power, Cornell University Press, 2015 (awarded the 2015 Alec Nove Prize by the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies), Crossing the Line. Vagrancy, Homelessness and Social Displacement in Russia, Ashgate, 2006 and Youth and Social Change in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union, Routledge, 2012 (co-edited with Charles Walker).