Category: Prison and street gangs
The Prison Gang as a «Brand» (an Overview of Informal Prison Hierarchies in Modern Prison Systems)
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
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
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
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
As of today, the relations between the Ukrainian and Russian professional criminal worlds and the respective informal prison hierarchies remain…
D. v. Latvia: Ill-Treatment of a Member of a Lower Informal Caste in Prison in the Absence of Physical Violence
D. v. Latvia: Ill-Treatment of a Member of a Lower Informal Caste in Prison in the Absence of Physical Violence…
Guatemala Opens Renovated Supermax Prison to Combat Gangs
The president of Guatemala, Bernardo Arévalo, inaugurated a renovated maximum-security prison this Tuesday after it was reclaimed from the control…
Venezuelan Prison Gang Extorts Money from Migrants
Authorities in Chihuahua, Mexico, two years ago began documenting the arrival of members of the Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua to…
The UK: Attacks on Prison Staff Reach 21-year High
More than 10,000 such assaults were recorded in the year to June, Ministry of Justice figures show. Attacks on prison…