Book review: David Skarbek,The Social Order of the Underworld: How Prison Gangs Govern the American Penal System

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Fuentes N (2006) The Rise and Fall of Nuestra Familia. Jefferson, WI: Know Gangs Publishing.

Jacobs JB (1977) Stateville: The Penitentiary in Mass Society. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Mendoza J (2012) Nuestra Familia: A Broken Paradigm. North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace Publishers.

Mendoza RA (2005) Mexican Mafia: The Gang of Gangs. Santa Ana, CA: Police and Fire Publishing.

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Parenti C (1999) Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis. London: Verso.

Trammell R (2009) Values, Rules, and Keeping the Peace: How Men Describe Order and the Inmate Code in California Prisons. Deviant Behavior 30(8): 746–771.

Trammell R (2011) Enforcing the Convict Code: Violence and Prison Culture. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers.