Competing for Control: Gangs and the Social Order of Prisons - Hardcover

Pyrooz, David C.; Decker, Scott H.

 
9781108498357: Competing for Control: Gangs and the Social Order of Prisons
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ISBN 10: 1108498353 ISBN 13: 9781108498357
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2019

Synopsis

Examines the role of prison gangs and their members in controlling life in prison.

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About the Authors

David C. Pyrooz is Associate Professor of Sociology and Faculty Associate of the Institute of Behavioral Science at the University of Colorado Boulder. His research interests are in the area of gangs and criminal networks, developmental and life-course criminology, and incarceration and re-entry.

Scott H. Decker is Foundation Professor in the School of Criminology at Arizona State University. His main research interests are in gangs, violence, and active offenders. He is the author of Life in the Gang: Family, Friends and Violence (1996) and Policing Immigrants: Local Law Enforcement on the Front Lines (2016).

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2019
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1108498353
ISBN 13 
9781108498357
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
310

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