{"id":11564,"date":"2014-10-13T09:00:58","date_gmt":"2014-10-13T13:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=11564"},"modified":"2014-10-13T10:38:02","modified_gmt":"2014-10-13T14:38:02","slug":"the-economics-of-gangs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2014\/the-economics-of-gangs\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economics Of Gangs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/101314_1433_TheEconomic1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"642\" height=\"427\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Economist reviewed &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Social-Order-Underworld-American-ebook\/dp\/B00MN95KO2\/ref=as_sl_pc_ss_til?tag=centives-20&amp;linkCode=w01&amp;linkId=3PCC4T3DKE56SMIA&amp;creativeASIN=B00MN95KO2\">The Social Order of the Underworld: How Prison Gangs Govern the American Penal System<\/a>&#8221; and outlined parts of the argument for why prison gangs are rational:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Up until the 1950s prison gangs did not exist. Instead prisoners lived according tp a &#8220;convict code&#8221; that included guidelines such as not snitching.<\/li>\n<li>It worked because in a small prison community fears of social ostracism was enough to keep everyone in line.<\/li>\n<li>Then the prison population exploded and as s result of larger prison populations as well as a lot of first time offenders who did not know the code, the arrangement began to break down.<\/li>\n<li>In this breach emerged the prison gang. Not only did they provide protection, their size meant that they were better able to bargain collectively and smuggle goods in such as drugs.<\/li>\n<li>Gangs are also long term sellers which mean that their reputations are a guarantee of the quality of the products they offer.<\/li>\n<li>Gangs are often centered around race because to avoid damage to the gang&#8217;s reputation it is important that others be able to clearly distinguish who is and isn&#8217;t a member of the gang.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read about what this means in terms of policy prescriptions and more details about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Social-Order-Underworld-American-ebook\/dp\/B00MN95KO2\/ref=as_sl_pc_ss_til?tag=centives-20&amp;linkCode=w01&amp;linkId=3PCC4T3DKE56SMIA&amp;creativeASIN=B00MN95KO2\">the book<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/books-and-arts\/21614090-prison-gangs-are-rational-solution-growing-problem-protection-rackets?frsc=dg%7Ce\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/books-and-arts\/21614090-prison-gangs-are-rational-solution-growing-problem-protection-rackets?frsc=dg%7Ce\">The Economist<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Economist reviewed &#8220;The Social Order of the Underworld: How Prison Gangs Govern the American Penal System&#8221; and outlined parts of the argument for why prison gangs are rational: Up until the 1950s prison gangs did not exist. Instead prisoners lived according tp a &#8220;convict code&#8221; that included guidelines such as not snitching. It worked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/101314_1433_TheEconomic1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11564"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11567,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11564\/revisions\/11567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}