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URL:https://murmitoyen.com/events/vanille/udem/detail/678082
LOCATION:Université de Montréal - Carrefour des arts et des sciences\, 31
 50\, rue Jean-Brillant \, Montréal\, QC\, Canada\, H3T 1N8
SUMMARY:Police Reform in Electoral Authoritarian Regimes: Armenia in Compar
 ative Post-soviet Perspective
DESCRIPTION:Guest speaker : Matthew Light
Matthew Light is associate profes
 sor of criminology and European\, Russian\, and Eurasian Studies at the Un
 iversity of Toronto. He received his doctorate in political science from Y
 ale University in 2006 and has been at the University of Toronto since 200
 8. He studies migration control\, policing and criminal justice\, and corr
 uption\, primarily in the post-Soviet region. Light's work has appeared in
  Theoretical Criminology\, Post-Soviet Affairs\, and Law and Social Inquir
 y. His book\, Fragile Rights: Freedom of Movement in Post-Soviet Russia\, 
 is forthcoming with Routledge\, with publication planned for March 2016 S
 ummary  We examine ongoing police reform initiatives in Armenia. Through 
 implicit comparisons with Russia and Georgia\, we assess what reforms are 
 feasible in similar electoral authoritarian regimes.Using documentary sour
 ces\, ethnographic observation\, and key-informant interviews\, we examine
  four major areas of reform: anti-corruption measures in the highway polic
 e\, modernization of police recruitment and training\, the policing of pro
 test\, and treatment of victims and witnesses in criminal investigations.

 Unlike Georgia’s sweeping reforms and Russia’s cosmetic ones\, Armenia
 ’s reforms can fairly be characterized as modest. We explain this variat
 ion in outcomes through differences across the cases concerning intra-elit
 e relations\, levels of corruption and street crime\, and international li
 nkages. Armenia’s experience demonstrates that at least some forms of po
 lice reform can occur in electoral authoritarian regimes.
We close by cons
 idering the long-term viability of modest reforms that fail to create a si
 gnificant pro-reform mobilization among citizens\, as well as the proper r
 ole of international partners in promoting police reform in non-democratic
  regimes.
Information
Conférence présentée par le Centre international 
 de criminologie comparée
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