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  • 020146

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  • Published 2003.
  • 151 pages.

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Inmate and Prison Gang Leadership

Publication year: 2003 | Cataloged on: Oct. 31, 2006
ANNOTATION: Results from a "phenomenological study . . . to determine the characteristics of an inmate leader" are provided (p. 2). Five chapters follow an abstract: introduction to and overview of this study; review of the literature; research methodology; data analysis according to the benefits of groups, internal factors of leadership (e.g., prison gang leader traits, inmate non-gang leader traits, and free-world leader traits as defined by inmates), external factors of leadership, inclusive inmate related factors, convict versus inmate terminology, and prisonization; and findings and recommendations for further research.
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