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Webthis book studies the social order of the prison underworld to understand how extralegal institutions form, operate, and evolve.

Webprior to the 1960s, inmates relied on a system of norms, known as “the convict code,” to create order.

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Webprison gangs, as informal governance institutions, emerge to provide private protection and quasi law enforcement in the inmate social system but state.

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