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The Influence of Prison Gang Affiliation on Violence and Other Prison Misconduct
Publication year:
2001
| Cataloged on:
Jul. 10, 2007
ANNOTATION: The relationship between prison gang affiliation and institutional violence and misconduct is investigated. Sections of this report following the abstract include: introduction; methods; results according to specific gang affiliation, gang embeddedness, changes in the discrete probability of violent and total misconduct associated with gang classification variables, and graphical representation of a composite gang threat index; and conclusions. "Thus, after controlling for a measure of violent risk (security-custody classification), a previous history of violence, and other background factors, gang affiliation increases the probability of violence and other misconduct" (p. 23).