" Certainly, prisons are dangerous places that impact the communities as well as the lives of
inmates and those who work there. Over the last several years, prison gangs have made …

This theoretical contribution argues that the domination of Western knowledge in disaster
scholarship has allowed normative policies and practices of disaster risk reduction to be …

This paper identifies an absence in currently constituted criminological discourse on the
Global North and Global South. This absence is the Global East. The Global East is not a …

This article analyses how criminal governance creates blockages that prevent peace
formation in Latin America. Two blockages emerge where criminal governance prevails …

In this article, we explore patterns of prison violence in five Latin American countries:
Argentina, Brazil, Chile, El Salvador, and Peru. Drawing on data from prisoner surveys …

Brazilian prisons are governed by two prevailing forces—gangs like the Comando Vermelho
and inmate-led Pentecostal prison churches. The current study uncovers how one of these …

A prison gang is a durable group that shares a collective identity, maintains a locus of
custodial influence, exhibits collective behavior, and engages in a pattern of illegal activity …

The present study uses a prospective longitudinal research design to examine whether
previously identified risk factors for prison interpersonal violence can predict violent prison …

Despite shared history and a common ambition to comply with European standards, post‐
Soviet countries differ in the way in which they reform prisons. By investigating two most …

Through the case study of Kyrgyzstan this paper argues that a rapidly increasing availability
of drugs in prison is not necessarily deleterious to solidarity and inmate codes. Instead, the …