Self-governing prisons: Prison gangs in an international perspective
Self-governing prisons: Prison gangs in an international perspective
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DOI：
10.1007/s12117-018-9338-7
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发表时间：
2022-12-01
影响因子：
1.7
通讯作者：
Dias, Camila Nunes
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作者：
Butler, Michelle;Slade, Gavin;Dias, Camila Nunes
本文发现合格的支持使用Skarbek（2011年，2014年）的治理理论，以了解在吉尔吉斯斯坦，北方爱尔兰和巴西的监狱帮派样群体的出现。然而，Skarbek（2011年，2014年）的治理理论几乎没有提到有多少监狱帮派出现，以及他们在美国之外是如何组织的。本文认为，帮派数量的变化及其对非正式治理的垄断只能通过考虑进口和剥夺理论以及治理理论来解释。这些理论考虑到监狱环境的变化和预先存在的社会分化，这些因素影响了信息传递的成本和帮派扩张的动机。特别是，本文关注社会和政治进程在影响监狱帮派的垄断权力是否得到支持和合法化方面发挥的更广泛的作用。
This paper finds 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. However, Skarbek's (2011, 2014) governance theory has little to say about how many prison gangs emerge and how they organise comparatively outside the US context. This paper argues that variation in the number of gangs and their monopolization of informal governance can only be explained by considering importation and deprivation theories alongside governance theories. These theories factor in variation in prison environments and pre-existing societal divisions imported into prison, which affect the costs on information transmission and incentives for gang expansion. In particular, the paper pays attention to the wider role social and political processes play in influencing whether monopoly power by prison gangs is supported and legitimized or not.