ИСТОРИЈСКИ РАЗВОЈ ОСУЂЕНИЧКИХ БАНДИ
HISTORICAL DEVELOPEMENT OF PRISON GANGS

Summary/Abstract: The authors, based on penologists Johnson’s typology how to adjust behavior in prisons, have noted that prisoners are those whose way of adapting to the conditions in the prisons prisonisation, resistance, and the dependence of the prison, are the basis for the emergence so-called prison gangs. Also, it was pointed out that there is no one universally accepted definition of prison gangs, but that each penologist highlights the essential elements of his determination. Period of creation gangs within the prison walls is related to the fifties and sixties of the last century. In the majority of prison gang as alleged grounds of emergence are race and ethnicity, where “membership” is limited only to men. This paper presents the most violent gang of convicts, like Gypsy Jokers, Mexican Mafia, Aryan Brotherhood, Black Guerrilla Family, etc.

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