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Maintenance treatment with methadone (MMT) is globally recommended as a key strategy for HIV prevention and addiction treatment in prisons,…
The Guatemalan government has put forward a new bill aimed at hitting gangs harder, with steeper sentences and a dedicated…
Police say 13 inmates and one prison guard have been killed and another 14 people injured in clashes between rival…
“Criminal subculture” is an antisocial, instigating phenomenon that not only differs from, but also opposes the general culture, the dominant…
The article is focused on the origins of Russian criminal and prison subculture and the current state of this phenomenon,…
By creating a giant colony beyond the Urals, unparalleled in world history, and populating it mainly with criminal elements, the…
Modern prison systems are characterised by the increasing role of violent criminal subcultures in prisons, which is a key challenge…
The modern self-designations of ‘thieves’ such as ‘law-abiding’, ‘lawful thieves’, and ‘thieves-in-law’ also originate from the pre-Revolutionary subculture of the…
