No Country for Made Men: The Decline of the Mafia in Post-Soviet Georgia

Law and Society Review

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 623-649

  Slade, Gavin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b ILIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (Georgia)

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EID: 84865425247     PISSN: 00239216     EISSN: 15405893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5893.2012.00508.x     Document Type: Article

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