What I found interesting that once incarcerated the member of the gang doesn 't stop or suspends his activity, in contrary of what I was used to thinking before, their gang career continues during the detention and even might be more prominent than during his free time. As admitted by the researcher 's “Gangs have established a serious presence within prisons across the United States, and because of this the social structure is now changing.” (Kaminski, 2014, p.84)
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The point is that the gang 's activities, operated from prison have gained such an important influence on the street gang overall activities, that there is no particular difference will the gang be operated from the prison or outside of it. The other, explanation, I found particularly important, is the time. Being incarcerated is depend entirely on a time, which was signed by a judge. Which mean if the gang member or leader, or even if the person had no previous records related to the engagement in gang, but only adhered the gang during their stay in prison, in all those cases, the time which each person need to serve in prison may explain their criminal engagement and future, after the release, the future recidivism outcome. Because, being closed signify, having much more free time. For an ordinary people it may be resulted in a desire to take classes from the prison, to acquire the Master diploma in CJ for example, or in law ( ex: the case of Russian thief in law, Babushkin, aka Brilliant) who studied law, and commanded his books from the library of the Quen of England, famous bloody- runner, Pistorius also promised to study law, and to became his own defence, during his sentences for the murder of …show more content…
Because of the time, when you are an employer, you do not have time to think, and to be creative, you physically do not have a possibility to invent something which can benefit you, because you are so busy to work for your boss, while when you have more time for you, or you are working on your own, you are the boss of your time, and you know exactly how would you like to spend it.
It 's the exact explanation, of why I believe the prison gangs have more significant results in the engagement in the gang, in the influence on the others gangs members like in but also out of prison and the success in the recruitment of the future members of a gang as well. Because of their time available, inside of the prison.
I believe, that the idea of application of time toward the measure of the imprisonment, gang membership, and violence involvement, and the recidivism once the member will be or was out of his detention, may be interpreted in a form of a future study, as