Minority gangs in Singapore prisons: Prisonisation revisited

This article attempts to better contextualise the theoretical and empirical connections between pre-prison orientation of prisoners and their subsequent adaption and subjective experiences of imprisonment using the case study of Omega, a racial minority gang in the Singapore prisons. While the artic...

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Main Author: Narayanan, Ganapathy (Author)
Contributors: Balachandran, Lavanya
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2020
In: The Australian and New Zealand journal of criminology
Year: 2020, Volume: 53, Issue: 1, Pages: 44-64
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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Keywords:
Masculinity
Minority gangs
Prison subcultures
Prisonisation
Singapore

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