PRISONS GANGS – CRIMINOLOGICAL AND PENOLOGICAL ASPECT Cover Image

ОСУЂЕНИЧКЕ БАНДЕ – КРИМИНОЛОШКИ И ПЕНОЛОШКИ АСПЕКТ
PRISONS GANGS – CRIMINOLOGICAL AND PENOLOGICAL ASPECT

Author(s): Miomira P. Kostić, Darko Dimovski
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Sociology, Criminology, Penology, Social Norms / Social Control
Published by: CENTAR MODERNIH ZNANJA
Keywords: prisoners' gang; concept; development; structure; communication;

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.Prison gangs are characterized by a special structure, which is largely the same. The head of the gang's president and underneath are vice president,regional generals, lieutenants, sergeants and soldiers. Prison gang members use different ways to communicate. Some researchers believe that prison gang members communicate using tattoos and graffiti. The most commonly are used coded messages. Prison gangs are the major "producers" of violence in prisons.Race and ethnicity are the main causes of the attacks on rival gang members. In the penitentiary institutions comes up to "spillover" of violence from the street into the prisons. Also, the authors emphasized the nexus of prison and street gangs.

  • Issue Year: I/2016
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 165-176
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Bosnian, Serbian