@article{1469884,
      recid = {1469884},
      author = {Maitra, Dev Rup.},
      title = {Prison gangs behind bars and beyond : a vicious game /},
      publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan,},
      address = {Cham :},
      pages = {1 online resource.},
      year = {2023},
      abstract = {This book draws on a four-year ethnographic study  conducted in the prisons and on the streets of Greater  Manchester, England, to examine gangs and organised crime  in the North of England. It includes the personal  testimonies of active prison gang members and major  organised crime figures, many of whom are behind bars, and  some active street gang members. It presents an holistic  account by exploring the linkages that exist between  prisons and the streets, including the lines of continuity  between gangs on both sides of the prison walls and how  gang affiliation straddles this divide. It offers data on  the regions drug market (specifically Class A drugs) as  this market is the lynchpin of the underworld, both within  and without prison. It also includes the perspectives and  insights of prison officers, police detectives, youth  workers, active and former street gang members and the  parents of deceased gang members. This is a  ground-breaking, contemporary study, analysing English gang  compositions and activities, with its findings and results  based on qualitative interviews and ethnographic research.  Dev Rup Maitra is Lecturer in Criminology at the School of  Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Portsmouth,  UK, and a non-practising barrister. He was called to the  Bar at Lincolns Inn as Hardwicke Scholar and holds degrees  from the University of Bristol and the University of  Cambridge. He was ESRC Scholar at Trinity Hall, a Member of  the Cambridge Institute of Criminology Prisons Research  Centre, and is Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1469884},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-31781-1},
}