RT Article
T1 When prison gangs become organized crime: Studying protection arrangements and their consequences
JF Trends in organized crime
VO 25
IS 4
SP 365
OP 377
A1 Gundur, Rajeev Vishwanath 1985-
A2 Trammell, Rebecca
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1830725246
AB Despite interest in the subject, the study of prison gangs has been meagre since the late 1980s. Occasional studies appear, but they tend to focus on only the largest prison systems in the US. This introduction to this special issue, Prison Gangs as Organized Crime, provides an overview of notable literature on the emergence and evolution of prison gangs, their relationships with protection, and their organized criminal activities. Moreover, the articles in this special issue explore important questions: How might we study prison gangs at a large scale? How do prison administrators’ responses to prison gangs cause prison gangs to adjust their power structures? How do prison gangs seek to establish protection arrangements? And what happens when prison gangs successfully establish protection arrangements beyond prison walls?
K1 Protection
K1 Organized Crime
K1 Social Order
K1 Prison gangs
DO 10.1007/s12117-022-09469-8