The paper is devoted to the study of prison gangs as the main form of organized crime in many foreign countries. The relevance of the paper is explained by the fact that modern penitentiary systems are characterised by the increasing role of violent criminal subcultures in prisons, which is a major challenge for most penitentiary systems around the world. That is why, in this paper, the authors aim to analyse the phenomenon of prison gangs as a special form of criminal organisations in the penitentiary systems of modern foreign countries.

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