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Yesterday, I had the great honour and privilege of speaking with staff from the Prison Service of the Republic of…
“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…
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…
In this study, we raise the issues of the origins of Soviet criminal and prison subculture, the corresponding informal prisoner…
The issue of Russian criminal and prison subculture and its spread is by no means historical or criminological in nature.…
One of the most striking examples of the influence of pre-revolutionary Russian prison subculture on post-Soviet culture is probably the…
In this expert blog, PRI’s Tinatin Uplisashvili explores the persistence of informal prison hierarchies across post-Soviet penitentiary systems, structures that…
