The Colonial Legacy of the “Wagner State” and the Destruction of the Russian Cultural Code
By creating a giant colony beyond the Urals, unparalleled in world history, and populating it mainly with criminal elements, the Muscovite Tsardom and
Dmytro Yagunov: The Legitimised Illegality of Street and Prison Gangs in the United States
Modern prison systems are characterised by the increasing role of violent criminal subcultures in prisons, which is a key challenge for most prison
‘Zhigany’ and “Urki”: From the White Guards to ‘Thieves-in-Law’
The modern self-designations of ‘thieves’ such as ‘law-abiding’, ‘lawful thieves’, and ‘thieves-in-law’ also originate from the pre-Revolutionary subculture of the ‘vagrants’. The category
Dmytro Yagunov: The Wagner Phenomenon: Russian Neo-Imperialism and the Importation of Prison Subculture
The issue of Russian criminal and prison subculture and its spread is by no means historical or criminological in nature. In fact, assessing
Isolation – a New Prison Podel in France
Walls several meters high, cells under constant surveillance, bulletproof glass partitions separating visitors from prisoners: In Vanden le Vieux, a small town 200
Prison Policy as a Component of Social Control: Between Penological Pessimism and the Rehabilitation Paradigm: Introduction
In this edition, given the considerable scope of the research, I decided not to be overly original. I decided to retain the basic