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How informal prisoner extralegal governance fills the governance void left by a weak and semi-withdrawn state

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Whilst central to maintenance of prison order, the traditional model is under threat following the major socio-legal transformations in Ukraine in the wake of independence, as well as the changing demographics of prisoners and the surge in drug use within Ukrainian prisons.

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This page is a summary of: The ‘inmate code’ in flux: A normative system and extralegal governance in a Ukrainian prison, Current Sociology, December 2017, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0011392117744596.
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