Dr Gachevska is a Lecturer in Criminology at Birmingham City University.
She is module leader of Introduction to Security; Global Security in the Post-Cold War World; Critical and Human Security in the Global South; Crime, Media and Culture; Transnational Corporate and Organised Crime.
She is also a researcher with the Centre for Applied Criminology at Birmingham City University, and her expertise includes European security, EU enlargement and criminal justice conditionality, contemporary political history of South-Eastern Europe, critical security studies, organised and corporate crime, and cultural criminology.
Research on and critical analysis of policy implementation.
MA European Studies/Politics 1999
PhD European Studies/International relations 2009
ECPR Standing Group on Organised Crime, BISA
Dr Gachevska’s main area of research is the politicisation and internationalisation of internal security concerns and particularly crime control efforts undertaken by EU member states. Her research has involved a critical analysis of the policy of fighting organised crime as developed by the European Union since the 1990s and its efforts to counter crime outside the borders of the Union.
She has approached these topics from the perspective of analyzing the political changes and criminal justice adjustment made by EU member states and EU candidate states and she has developed a critical model of understanding such changes based on empirical evidence from the Eastern Europe and the Balkans. She is currently also looking at similar developments in the area of environmental and corporate crime.
On the Persistence of the Mafia ‘ghost’: A Reply to Felia Allum, Policing (2012) 6 (4): 360-364
Fighting organised crime as a security threat: the lessons learnt from the case of Bulgaria, Journal of Regional Security (2012), 7:1, 1–15, Belgrade Centre for Security Policy
Goodfellas against Godfathers, or the fictional character of European Policing and European Crime in European Studies Conference Proceedings (2008) University of Rousse Press
Exporting Anti-crime Policies: EU Phare Projects on Fighting Organised Crime in European Studies Conference Proceedings (2005), University of Rousse Press
Crime and Corruption in the Balkans: Deconstructing the Theory of the Captured State in European Studies Conference Proceedings (2005) University of Rousse Press
Aspects of the European Security Architecture at the end of 20th Century in Proceedings of the 45th Anniversary Conference of the University of Rousse (1999) University of Rousse Press
Copies of Dr Gachevska's work are available at http://bcu.academia.edu/KaterinaGachevska
