The New Convict Code

The New Convict Code
Author: Kit Cummings
Publisher:
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2021-01-18
Genre:
ISBN: 9781665300124

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The US prison industrial complex is in desperate need of repair. Corrections has become big business in America and a young, misguided generation is fueling a system built to fail. More and more kids are hitting the streets and lining up to go behind the razor wire. What is the solution? What if reformed felons could change the future of the next generation? Kit Cummings' bold vision-borne out of twelve years working with more than ten thousand offenders-flips the script on prison reform and disrupts the pipeline from schools to prisons. He replaces the current gang-inspired convict code with one that integrates respect, integrity, and dignity, giving prisoners the freedom to dream big dreams and become positive role models to a young generation at risk. Brothers who have been behind the wire share powerful lessons with our youth, redirecting their path and ending the violence in the streets and in their hearts. The proven success of Kit's Power of Peace Project lays the groundwork for a future with less violence, declining prison populations, and a more sound and just prison system.In 2010, Kit Cummings founded the Power of Peace Project. Using the experience he gained resolving conflict in some of the most dangerous areas in the world, he applies his principles to bring about change in prisons, schools, corporations, and the faith-based community. Kit has worked with the incarcerated in over a hundred prisons, jails, detention centers, and rehab facilities and served over ten thousand prisoners. The New Convict Code brings solutions to the growing epidemic of crime and violence we are witnessing among today's youth.

Enforcing the Convict Code

Enforcing the Convict Code
Author: Rebecca Trammell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Prison administration
ISBN: 9781588268082

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The author used qualitative data collected in 2005 and 2006 in California to explore how former inmates (men and women) understand and explain prison violence and inmate culture.--Chapter 1.

Language and Social Reality

Language and Social Reality
Author: D. Lawrence Wieder
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1974-04
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9783111047287

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The Convict Code

The Convict Code
Author: Donald Lawrence Wieder
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 1970
Genre:
ISBN:

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Proceedings

Proceedings
Author: National Conference on Social Welfare
Publisher:
Total Pages: 410
Release: 1894
Genre: Charities
ISBN:

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Convicts, Codes, and Contraband

Convicts, Codes, and Contraband
Author: Vergil L. Williams
Publisher:
Total Pages: 200
Release: 1974
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:

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This text applied economic principles to the analysis of the prison economy, prison hustling and inmate careers in both men's and women's institutions. Prisons provide a basic subsistence for inmates, but deny them legitimate income-producing opportunities. Therefore, the study starts with the proposition that prisons are islands of poverty in which a high demand is created for goods and services such as coffee, food, drugs, weapons and sex, and goes on to examine the economic systems that develop. Three types of hustling are identified. The most elaborate is that of the entrepreneurial clique under the leadership of the antisocial 'right guy' who utilizes the techniques of ghetto hustling. He organizes his clique by using the methods and providing the services of a crime syndicate. The second system involves inmates who achieve sufficiently high levels of production to qualify as 'merchants'. They produce enough goods to become involved in reciprocal trade arrangements with other prisoners. In women's prisons, for social as well as economic reasons, inmates develop a 'family' system and lesbian butch/"femme" relations, with families supporting themselves through barter and theft.

Gangs of the El Paso-Juárez Borderland

Gangs of the El Paso-Juárez Borderland
Author: Mike Tapia
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2019
Genre: History
ISBN: 0826361099

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This thought-provoking book examines gang history in the region encompassing West Texas, Southern New Mexico, and Northern Chihuahua, Mexico. Known as the El Paso-Juárez borderland region, the area contains more than three million people spanning 130 miles from east to west. From the badlands--the historically notorious eastern Valle de Juárez--to the Puerto Palomas port of entry at Columbus, New Mexico, this area has become more militarized and politicized than ever before. Mike Tapia examines this region by exploring a century of historical developments through a criminological lens and by studying the diverse subcultures on both sides of the law. Tapia looks extensively at the role of history and geography on criminal subculture formation in the binational urban setting of El Paso-Juárez, demonstrating the region's unique context for criminogenic processes. He provides a poignant case study of Homeland Security and the apparent lack of drug-war spillover in communities on the US-Mexico border.

Power on the Inside

Power on the Inside
Author: Mitchel P. Roth
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Total Pages: 415
Release: 2020-11-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 1789143241

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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 Asia, Europe, and beyond. The book examines the many variables that influence the evolution of prison subcultures, from colonialism and population demographics to prison architecture and staff-prisoner relations. Power on the Inside features eighty historical and contemporary images and will inform professionals in the field as well as general readers who want to know more about the realities of prison gangs today.

Carceral Mobilities

Carceral Mobilities
Author: Jennifer Turner
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 436
Release: 2016-12-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1317292022

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Mobilities research is now centre stage in the social sciences with wide-ranging work that considers the politics underscoring the movements of people and objects, critically examining a world that is ever on the move. At first glance, the words ‘carceral’ and ‘mobilities’ seem to sit uneasily together. This book challenges the assumption that carceral life is characterised by a lack of movement. Carceral Mobilities brings together contributions that speak to contemporary debates across carceral studies and mobilities research, offering fresh insights to both areas by identifying and unpicking the manifold mobilities that shape, and are shaped by, carceral regimes. It features four sections that move the reader through the varying typologies of motion underscoring carceral life: tension; circulation; distribution; and transition. Each mobilities-led section seeks to explore the politics encapsulated in specific regimes of carceral movement. With contributions from leading scholars, and a range of international examples, this book provides an authoritative voice on carceral mobilities from a variety of perspectives, including criminology, sociology, history, cultural theory, human geography, and urban planning. This book offers a first port of call for those examining spaces of detention, asylum, imprisonment, and containment, who are increasingly interested in questions of movement in relation to the management, control, and confinement of populations.