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Treatment or Punishment has noted a ‘longstanding feature’ of the Moldovan prison system – a well-established informal hierarchy and subculture that leads to inter prisoner violence and intimidation.
Thus following consultations with the Department of Penitentiary Institutions it was decided to develop a baseline study into criminal subculture in the prisons in the Republic of Moldova addressing the exact links between criminal subculture and inter-prisoner violence, providing recommendations on how to counteract this negative phenomenon in the Republic of Moldova.