Pleshkova, Olga

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Research Topic

Human rights in policing

Olga’s research project is on the intersection of human rights and comparative criminal justice. Looking at the policy transfers she explores how international human rights standards shape vocabularies, policies and practices of the Russian police. The project will attempt to assess how international human rights norms become embedded in the policy documents and influence gradual change in attitudes and behavior of police personnel. One of the possible outcomes of the project could be re-evaluation of the concept of police culture in the socioeconomic, cultural and political contexts of the society in transition.

Olga’s research interests are in the areas of human rights law, policing and institutional change and reforms in post-Soviet societies.

Research Supervisor

Professor Paul Roberts

Primary Funding Source

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Academic Qualifications

Academic Qualification	Awarding Institution
Undergraduate degree in Law	Russian Federation Ministry of the Interior Far Eastern Law Institute
Postgraduate Research Degree in Constitutional Law	Moscow Law University of the Russian Federation Ministry of the Interior
LLM in Human Rights Law	University of Nottingham

Conference Papers

• Beyond the Rhetoric of Rights: human rights training in police educational institutions in Russia, paper for the 6th Biennial International Criminal Justice Conference ‘Policing in Central and Eastern Europe: Past, Present and Futures’ (Ljubljana, Slovenia, September 21-23, 2006)
• Human Rights in Policing: international standards in the local context, paper for the 13th Annual Meeting of the International Police Executive Symposium ‘Local Linkages to Global Security and Crime: Thinking Locally and Acting Globally’ (Ayvalik, Turkey, May 26-30, 2006).
• Police in Transitional Democracies: re-examining the concept of police culture, paper for European Society of Criminology annual conference (Kraków, Poland, 31 August –3 September, 2005)
• Human Rights and Legal Cultures: an exploratory study of attitudes of the human rights lectures in two police educational institutions in Russia, paper for British Society of Criminology annual conference ‘Re-awakening Criminological Imagination’ (University of Leeds, July 12-14, 2005)
• Human Rights and Legal Cultures: challenges for democratic policing, paper for Socio-Legal Studies Association annual conference (University of Liverpool, 30 March – 1 April, 2005)
• Human Rights and Police Cultures: the case of Russia, paper for International conference ‘Whose Culture? Whose Rights?’ (University of Nottingham, 12 March 2005)

Other Information

Book Reviews

• D. Cooley (ed.), Re-imagining Policing in Canada. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005). British Journal of Criminology, 2006, 46(1): 160-163.
• M. Natarajan (ed.), Women Police. (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005). The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, 2006, 45 (1):  225-228.
• Laura Piacentini, Surviving Russian Prisons: Punishment, Economy and Politics in Transition. (Willan Publishing, Cullompton, 2004). Human Rights Law Review, 2006, 6 (1): 185-191.