Philip Gounev Author

Philip Gounev is Senior Analyst and expert on crime and corruption at the Center for the Study of Democracy in Bulgaria. Dr Gounev leads Bulgaria’s annual National Crime Survey. He has managed a number of EU-wide and national studies and projects on organised-crime and corruption. Dr Gounev holds a PhD from the London School of Economics.

Vincenzo Ruggiero is Professor of Sociology at Middlesex University in London. He has conducted research on behalf of many national and international bodies, including the Home Office, the ESRC, the European Commission and the United Nations. He has published extensively in a variety of criminological and sociological areas, and his previous books include: Organised and Corporate Crime in Europe (1996); The New European Criminology (1998, co-edited); Crime and Markets (2000); Economic and Financial Crime (2002, co-edited); Crime in Literature (2003); Understanding Political Violence (2006); Social Movements: A Reader (2008, co-edited) and Penal Abolitionism (2010).