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Power, Control, and Symbiosis in Brazilian Prisons

Roy D. King, +1 more
- 01 Jul 2014 - 
- Vol. 113, Iss: 3, pp 503-528
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This article is published in South Atlantic Quarterly.The article was published on 2014-07-01. It has received 22 citations till now.

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Legitimacy in criminal governance: Managing a drug empire from behind bars

TL;DR: In this article, the authors gratefully acknowledge financial support from the Social Science Research Council/Open Society Foundations, the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge, the Center for International Social science Research and the Pearson Institute for the Study and Resolution of Global Conflict at the U.S. Army Research Office/Army Research Laboratory under the Minerva Research Initiative.
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Self-governing prisons: Prison gangs in an international perspective

TL;DR: The authors found qualified support for the use of Skarbek's (2011, 2014) governance theory to understand the emergence of prison gang-like groups in Kyrgyzstan, Northern Ireland and Brazil.
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Compromised Power and Negotiated Order in a Ukrainian Prison

TL;DR: In this paper, a semi-ethnographic study in a Ukrainian medium-security prison for men was conducted, where officers and prisoners negotiate order to produce a manageable, stable, predictable, peaceful and relatively habitable prison environment.
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Violence as Information During Prison Reform: Evidence From the Post-Soviet Region

TL;DR: In this paper, a key mechanism linking disorganization to conflict and violence is information flow, and the authors examine this proposition as it applies to prisoners and staff through a critical case study of radical prison reform in the South Caucasus country of post-Soviet Georgia.
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The ukrainian response to sykes: prisoner hierarchy and self-rule-power, legitimacy, and dynamics

TL;DR: In this article, a semi-ethnographic study of prisoner hierarchies in post-Soviet Ukraine is presented, arguing that the post-independence shifts in penal policies and prison practices, combined with changes in prisoner demographics, have been altering the Ukrainian prisoner power structure.
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Thieves, Convicts and the Inmate Culture

John Irwin, +1 more
- 01 Oct 1962 - 
TL;DR: The cultura de la prision or cultura carcelaria, e.g., en terminos que sugieren que el sistema de comportamiento de los distintos tipos de presos se origina in the propias condiciones de encierro, originates in the interior of the carcel as discussed by the authors.
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Prisons in Turmoil

John Irwin