The Influence of Prison Gang Affiliation on Violence and Other Prison Misconduct

Prison Journal - Tập 82 Số 3 - Trang 359-385 - 2002
Gerald G. Gaes1, Susan R. Wallace1, Evan Gilman1, Jody Klein-Saffran1, Sharon Suppa1
1Federal Bureau of Prisons, US

Tóm tắt

Most of the empirical research and practically all of the fieldwork conducted on gangs has been devoted to street gangs. In this article, Bureau of Prisons automated data were used to evaluate the contribution of prison gang affiliation to violence and other forms of misconduct within prisons. The authors also examined a measure of gang embeddedness to see if, similar to street gang research, it can be shown that core members of a prison gang were more likely to commit violent and other kinds of misconduct than were more peripheral members. Both specific and more generic gang indicators were related to violence and other forms of official prison misconduct. A composite measure of gang misconduct represents the threat that particular gangs pose to prison order. The “threat index” is model based and provides a graphical representation of the relative magnitude and heterogeneity of the threat posed by different gang affiliations.

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Prison Journal

Tập 82 Số 3

359-385

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