Purpose Inmate rule violations or “misconducts” reflect offending within a prison, and this
study involved a systematic review of studies of the causes/correlates of inmate misconduct …

Prisons have been described as the final frontier for research on gangs and gang members.
Criminological research in prisons is rare due to restricted access to facilities, concerns …

This study takes stock of empirical research examining the relationship between gang
membership and offending by subjecting this large body of work to a meta-analysis …

We use 16 characterizations of crews, codes, and contexts to determine if offender
subcultures (code of the street, convict code, street and prison gangs) converge …

The current paper examines the extent to which the pursuit of status, the social construction
of masculinity and violence are linked. The main argument suggests that in a world where …

Bringing together cutting-edge theory and research that bridges academic disciplines from
criminology and criminal justice, to developmental psychology, sociology, and political …

In this article, we examine key propositions from Colvin, Cullen, and Vander Ven's
Differential Coercion/Social Support Theory (DCSST) to explain inmate violence …

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 …

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 …

Purpose Age constitutes one of the most robust correlates of prison misconduct—younger
inmates are more likely to commit infractions. Minimal theoretical or empirical attention …