Episode Four - Prison as Criminal Ecosystem

Prisons are meant to be an antidote to crime; a place where those who commit crimes are sent to break there cycle of offending. The assumption is that at least while behind bars, they can't be up to no-good. A new paper in by Kate Gooch, Matt Hopkins, and James Treadwell, published in the journal Criminology & Criminal Justice challenges this idea.Titled Prisons as ecosystems of organised and entrepreneurial crime: Developing a theoretical and empirical understanding it turns this thinking on it's head and explores whether prisons in England and Wales are in fact incubators for criminal organisations.https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17488958251348051Key Words: Prison, Organised Crime, Ecosystems, Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.