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Competing for control : gangs and the social order of prisons
\"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 headlines across the country. The 2013 inmate hunger strike in California-involving over 30,000 inmates-was organized by members of black, Latino, and white gang members housed in solitary confinement for indeterminate sentences (K. A. Reiter 2016); the Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Corrections was executed at the doorstep of his home in 2013 by a recently-released 211 Crew prison gang member (Prendergast 2014); and a multi- jurisdictional task force led to the indictments of nearly 75 Aryan Brotherhood of Texas gang members, some of whom were implicated in the blowtorch removal of a gang tattoo, the inspiration for a Sons of Anarchy episode (Schiller 2016). These are just a few of the events that illustrate the significance of prison gangs for society\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Drug Smugglers on Drug Smuggling
Drug Smugglers on Drug Smugglingfeatures interviews with 34 convicted drug smugglers -- most of them once major operators -- detailing exactly how drugs are smuggled into the U.S. from Latin America. These sources provide tangible evidence of the risks, rewards, and organization of international drug smuggling.Quoting frequently from their interviews, Decker and Chapman explain how individuals are recruited into smuggling, why they stay in it, and how their roles change over time. They describe the specific strategies their interviewees employed to bring drugs into the country and how they previously escaped apprehension. Over-all, the authors find that drug smuggling is organized in a series of networks which are usually unconnected.This extraordinarily informative book will be of particular interest to law enforcement officials and policymakers, but it will appeal to anyone who wants to know how the drug business actually works.
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On Gangs
Gangs are multifaceted and varied, so any attempt to understand them cannot be restricted to a singular approach.On Gangs provides a diverse and comprehensive survey of the available theories for understanding this social issue as well as the broad range of responses to it.
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Burglars On The Job
Through extensive and candid interviews, the authors of this ground-breaking work have studied burglars' decision-making processes within the context of their streetlife culture. In this volume they present their findings in the areas of motivation, target selection, methods of entering and searching a residence, and methods of selling stolen goods, concluding with a discussion of the theoretical implications of their research.
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