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    • Informal Prison Hierarchies and the Simulacrum of Prison Subculture in Contemporary Power Relations
    • Simulacrum of the prison subculture in the case law of the ECtHR and the CPT
    • Study into Prison Subculture in Moldova
    • The Prison Gang as a «Brand»
    • White Supremacist Prison Gangs in the United States
    • African-American Gangs in the USA
  • Ukraine
  • Post-Soviet States
  • Russia
  • Europe
    • Sweden
      • Brödraskapet
    • Ireland
      • Irish Mob
  • USA – Hispanic-American Gangs
    • Mexican Mafia
      • Sureños
        • Varrio Longo 13
        • Compton Varrio 70’s
        • Compton Varrio Segundo
        • East LA 13 Dukes
        • Santa Monica 13
        • Temple Street
        • Playboys
        • Mid City Stoners
        • Logan Heights Gang
        • Puente 13
    • Nuestra Familia
      • Norteños
    • Mara Salvatrucha
    • Mexikanemi, or Texas Mexican Mafia
    • Barrio Maravilla
    • White Fence
    • La Raza
    • Spanish Gangster Disciples
    • Maniac Latin Disciples
    • Latin Eagles
    • Almighty Saints
    • Culver City Boys
  • USA – Afriсan American
    • Folk Nation
      • Crips
        • Grape Street Watts Crips
        • Rollin’ 60s Neighborhood Crips
        • Venice Shoreline Crips
    • People Nation
      • Vice Lords
        • Traveling Vice Lords / Junk Yard Dogs 
      • Bloods
        • Pirus
        • Bounty Hunter Watts Bloods
      • Four Corner Hustlers
      • Mickey Cobras
      • United Blood Nation
        • Nine Trey Gangsters
    • DC Blacks
    • Black P. Stone Nation
      • The El Rukns
    • Harvard Park Brims
  • USA – White gangs
    • United Society of Aryan Skinheads
  • USA – Central American Gangs
    • Tren de Aragua
  • USA – Asian Gangs
    • Asian Boyz
  • Central and South America
    • Primeiro Comando da Capital
    • Comando Vermelho
    • Terceiro Comando da Capital
  • Africa
  • Asia
  • Australia and New Zealand
    • King Cobras
  • The CPT (Council of Europe)

Year: 2024

State of New Jersey v. Quran Goodman: the Crips and the Bloods (Gang Membership)

State of New Jersey v. Quran Goodman: the Crips and the Bloods (Gang Membership)

BloodsCripsDmytro YagunovInformal prisoner hierarchiesPrevention of torturePrison and street gangsPrison hierarchiesPrison subcultureUSA
yagunov08.12.202408.12.2024

Goodman, whose street name was “Blak,” was a member of the Crips gang. Prior to the events that gave rise…

Ukraine: Extorting Money from Prisoners of the Odesa Pre-Trial Prisons by the Criminal Group

Ukraine: Extorting Money from Prisoners of the Odesa Pre-Trial Prisons by the Criminal Group

Dmytro YagunovEuropeInformal prisoner hierarchiesPost-Soviet StatesPrevention of torturePrison and street gangsPrison hierarchiesPrison subcultureUkraine
yagunov08.12.202408.12.2024

On 03 December 2024, in Odesa, investigators served a notice of suspicion to six members of a criminal group who…

Drug Smuggling and Money Laundering in HM Prison Lindholme

Drug Smuggling and Money Laundering in HM Prison Lindholme

Dmytro YagunovEuropeInformal prisoner hierarchiesPrevention of torturePrison and street gangsPrison hierarchiesPrison subcultureStaffUK
yagunov07.12.202407.12.2024

A group of drug smugglers and money launderers – including a prison officer, multiple inmates and their relatives – have…

The Phenomenon of Informal Prison Hierarchies and the Simulacrum of Prison Subculture in Contemporary Power Relations

The Phenomenon of Informal Prison Hierarchies and the Simulacrum of Prison Subculture in Contemporary Power Relations

Dmytro YagunovExpertsInformal prisoner hierarchiesPrevention of torturePrison and street gangsPrison hierarchiesPrison subculture
yagunov07.12.202407.12.2024
The Prison Gang as a «Brand» (an Overview of Informal Prison Hierarchies in Modern Prison Systems)

The Prison Gang as a «Brand» (an Overview of Informal Prison Hierarchies in Modern Prison Systems)

Dmytro YagunovExpertsInformal prisoner hierarchiesPrevention of torturePrison and street gangsPrison hierarchiesPrison subculture
yagunov07.12.202407.12.2024

The paper is devoted to the study of prison gangs as the main form of organized crime in many foreign…

A Simulacrum of the Prison Subculture in the Practices of the ECtHR and the CPT

A Simulacrum of the Prison Subculture in the Practices of the ECtHR and the CPT

CPTECHREuropeExpertsInformal prisoner hierarchiesPrevention of torturePrison and street gangsPrison hierarchiesPrison subculture
yagunov07.12.202407.12.2024

Taking into account the social consequences caused by imprisonment, prisons and other total institutions cannot be considered only as formal…

Gergely Fliegauf: A Short Genealogy of Prison Hierarchy in Hungary in the 1980s

Gergely Fliegauf: A Short Genealogy of Prison Hierarchy in Hungary in the 1980s

EuropeExpertsHungaryInformal prisoner hierarchiesPrevention of torturePrison and street gangsPrison hierarchiesPrison subculture
yagunov07.12.202407.12.2024

We are pleased to present a short overview of the genealogy of prison hierarchy in Hungary in the 1980s by…

Baseline Study into Criminal Subculture in Prisons in  Moldova

Baseline Study into Criminal Subculture in Prisons in Moldova

Dmytro YagunovEuropeExpertsInformal prisoner hierarchiesMoldovaPost-Soviet StatesPrevention of torturePrison and street gangsPrison hierarchiesPrison subculture
yagunov07.12.202407.12.2024

Treatment or Punishment has noted a ‘longstanding feature’ of the Moldovan prison system – a well-established informal hierarchy and subculture…

A Country Based on a Prison Subculture

A Country Based on a Prison Subculture

Dmytro YagunovInformal prisoner hierarchiesPost-Soviet StatesPrevention of torturePrison and street gangsPrison hierarchiesPrison subcultureRussia
yagunov07.12.202407.12.2024

As of today, the relations between the Ukrainian and Russian professional criminal worlds and the respective informal prison hierarchies remain…

Volodymyr Meliukhov: Ukraine Needs New European Prisons with New Staff Oriented to European Values

Volodymyr Meliukhov: Ukraine Needs New European Prisons with New Staff Oriented to European Values

Dmytro YagunovEuropeExpertsInformal prisoner hierarchies
yagunov07.12.202407.12.2024

I am pleased to present to the esteemed audience the opinions of a practitioner with extensive experience in the penitentiary…

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