Louise Shelley, in American Sociologi- ca~eview(Feb. i980), Dept. of ~ociology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Ill. 61801.
What is the crime capital of the Soviet Union? Surprisingly, it is not Moscow-nor Leningrad-but the much smaller port city of Vladivos- tok, in the Eastern Maritime region. According to Shelley, an American University sociologist, strict Soviet controls have not wiped out crime but shifted lawbreakers and crime-prone elements of the population to the USSR's small eastern and...