Power on the Inside: A Global History of Prison Gangs

Author: Mitchel P. Roth Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 The first historical account of the development of prison gangs world-wide Power on the Inside is the first book to examine the historical development of prison gangs worldwide, from those that emerged inside mid-nineteenth-century Neapolitan prisons to the new generation of younger inmates challenging the status quo within gang subcultures today. Historian-criminologist Mitchel P. Roth examines prison gangs throughout the world, from the Americas, Oceania, and South Africa to Southeast...Read more