Year: 2025
The 2025 Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology: Dmytro Yagunov. Informal prison hierarchies in the 21 century: subculture, trends and social control
Dmytro Yagunov: Informal prison hierarchies in the 21 century: subculture, trends and social control (The 2025 Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology)
In this study, we raise the issues of the origins of Soviet criminal and prison subculture, the corresponding informal prisoner…
Dmytro Yagunov: The Wagner Phenomenon: Russian Neo-Imperialism and the Importation of Prison Subculture
The issue of Russian criminal and prison subculture and its spread is by no means historical or criminological in nature.…
Impact of Russian Prison on Ukrainian Language
One of the most striking examples of the influence of pre-revolutionary Russian prison subculture on post-Soviet culture is probably the…
Isolation – a New Prison Model in France
Walls several meters high, cells under constant surveillance, bulletproof glass partitions separating visitors from prisoners: In Vanden le Vieux, a…
Tinatin Uplisashvili: The Shadow Сode – How Informal Prison Pierarchy Undermines Human Dignity Across Post-Soviet Prisons
In this expert blog, PRI’s Tinatin Uplisashvili explores the persistence of informal prison hierarchies across post-Soviet penitentiary systems, structures that…
Dmytro Yagunov. Prison Policy as a Component of Social Control: Between Penological Pessimism and the Rehabilitation Paradigm
This monograph was prepared and published during my work and research at the University of Tübingen as part of the…
Penal Reform International: Security and violence (Global Prison Trends 2025)
Prison systems globally continue to report high levels of violence, with a myriad of drivers and impacts for people in…