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2024

Piacentini, Laura and Slade, Gavin (2024) East is East? Beyond the Global North and Global South in criminology. The British Journal of Criminology, 64 (3). pp. 521-537. ISSN 1464-3529

Slade, Gavin and Turlubekova, Zhaniya and Piacentini, Laura (2024) Who recounts the Stalinist past? : Mnemonic roles, acts of remembering and life-scripts in Russian families. Current Sociology. ISSN 0011-3921

Slade, Gavin and Piacentini, Laura and Kravtsova, Alena (2024) Ghosts of the Gulag : negotiating spectres of the penal past in Northern Russia. The British Journal of Criminology, 64 (1). pp. 17-33. ISSN 0007-0955

2023

Slade, Gavin and Trochev, Alexei and Piacentini, Laura (2023) Unlikely downsizers : the prison service's role in reversing mass incarceration in Kazakhstan. Theoretical Criminology, 27 (4). pp. 573-596. ISSN 1362-4806

2022

Piacentini, Laura and Katz, Elena M. (2022) The Virtual Reality of Imprisonment in Russia : "Preparing Myself for Prison" in a Contested Human Rights Landscape. Routledge, Oxon. ISBN 9781138103351

Piacentini, Laura (2022) Human rights in Russia in the shadow of the gulag : penal transitology as bureaucratic drama. Law & Social Inquiry. ISSN 1747-4469 (In Press)

2021

Weaver, Beth and Piacentini, Laura and Moodie, Kristina and Barry, Monica (2021) Exploring and explaining non-compliance with community supervision. The British Journal of Criminology, 61 (2). pp. 434-455. ISSN 0007-0955

2018

Piacentini, Laura and Katz, Elena (2018) The virtual reality of Russian prisons : the impact of social media on prisoner agency and prison structure in Russian prisons. Oñati Socio-Legal Series, 8 (2). pp. 183-204.

Piacentini, Laura and Weaver, Beth and Jardine, Cara (2018) Employment and Employability in Scottish Prisons : A Research Briefing Paper. The Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research, Glasgow.

2017

Piacentini, Laura and Katz, Elena (2017) Carceral framing of human rights in Russian prisons. Punishment and Society, 19 (2). pp. 221-239. ISSN 1462-4745

2015

Piacentini, Laura; Drake, Deborah H. and Earle, Rod and Sloan, Jennifer, eds. (2015) "Get in, get out, go back?" : transitioning from prison ethnography to prison policy research in Russia. In: The Palgrave Handbook of Prison Ethnography. Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology . Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.. ISBN 9781137403872

Piacentini, Laura and Slade, Gavin (2015) Architecture and attachment : carceral collectivism and the problem of prison reform in Russia and Georgia. Theoretical Criminology, 19 (2). pp. 179-197. ISSN 1362-4806

2014

Piacentini, Laura; Miller, Vivien and Campbell, James, eds. (2014) Punishment and parade : the cultural form of penal exile in Russia. In: Transnational Penal Cultures. SOLON: Explorations in Crime and Criminal Justice . Routledge, Oxford, England, pp. 127-143. ISBN 9780415741316

Piacentini, Laura and Pallot, Judith (2014) 'In Exile Imprisonment' in Russia. The British Journal of Criminology, 54 (1). pp. 20-37. ISSN 0007-0955

2013

Pallot, J. and Piacentini, Laura (2013) Carceral geography and women prisoners in Russia. Oxford University Press, Oxford. (In Press)

Piacentini, Laura; Ruggerio, V and Ryan, M, eds. (2013) Condemned, rewarded and punished: how Russia’s penal system came in from the cold and then went back in again. In: European Perspectives on Imprisonment, Revisited. Palgrave. (In Press)

2012

Pallot, Judith and Piacentini, Laura (2012) Gender, Geography, and Punishment : the Experience of Women in Carceral Russsia. Oxford Geographical and Environmental Studies Series (1st). Oxford University Press, Oxford. ISBN 9780199658619

2011

Piacentini, Laura and Moran, Dominique and Pallot, Judith (2011) The geography of crime and punishment in the Russian federation. Eurasian Geography and Economics, 52 (1). pp. 79-104. ISSN 1538-7216

2010

Tombs, Jackie and Piacentini, Laura; Croall, Hazel and Mooney, Gerry and Munro, Mary, eds. (2010) Prisons and imprisonment in Scotland. In: Criminal Justice in Scotland. Willian Publishing, Abingdon. ISBN 9781843927853

Pallot, Judith and Piacentini, Laura and Moran, D. (2010) Patriotic discourses in Russia's penal peripheries : remembering the Mordovian Gulag. Europe-Asia Studies, 62 (1). pp. 1-33. ISSN 0966-8136

2009

Piacentini, L.F. and Pallot, Judith and Moran, Dominique (2009) Welcome to Malaya Rodina ('Little Homeland') : gender and penal order in a Russian penal colony. Social and Legal Studies, 18 (4). pp. 523-542. ISSN 0964-6639

Moran, D. and Pallot, J. and Piacentini, L.F. (2009) Lipstick, lace, and longing : constructions of femininity inside a Russian prison. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 27 (4). pp. 700-720. ISSN 0263-7758

Piacentini, Laura (2009) Russian prisons : bringing a riddle out of hiding. e-Sharp. pp. 74-98.

2008

Piacentini, L.F.; McEvoy, Kieran and McGregor, Lorna, eds. (2008) Burden or benefit? paradoxes of penal transition in Russia. In: Transitional Justice from Below : Grassroots Activism and the Struggle for Change. Hart Publishing, Oxford, pp. 217-236. ISBN 9781841138213

Piacentini, Laura (2008) ТРУДНЫЙ ПУТЬ К ИДЕАЛЬНОМУ СТАНДАРТУ’. Отечественные записки, 41 (2).

2006

Piacentini, Laura; Armstrong, Sarah and McAra, Lesley, eds. (2006) Prisons during transition: Promoting a common penal identity through international norms. In: Perspectives on punishment: the contours of control. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, pp. 101-118. ISBN 0199278776

2004

Piacentini, Laura (2004) Surviving Russian prisons: punishment, economy and politics in transition. Willan Publishing, Devon, UK. ISBN 1843921030

Piacentini, L.F. (2004) Barter in Russian prisons. European Journal of Criminology, 1 (1). pp. 17-45. ISSN 1477-3708

Piacentini, L.F. (2004) Penal identities in Russian prison colonies. Punishment and Society, 6 (2). pp. 131-147. ISSN 1462-4745