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Ross explores the dark heart of the country’s ferocious Number’s Gang that thrives on over-crowded prisons. In Pollsmoor High Security Prison Ross experiences the terrifying sensation of incarceration among vicious murderers, rapists, and violent armed-robbers.

Ross infiltrates Moscow’s vicious Neo-Nazi gangs to discover who is behind a recent wave of racist attacks and hate crimes; and uncovers the extent to which these National Socialist groups are gaining power in the country.

Orange County, California, regarded as the birthplace of American skinheads. The recent amalgamation of various factions has led to the creation of the Orange County Skinheads where Ross gets to grips with the impact of this group on a concerned community.

Jamaica boasts the highest murder rate in the world. Ross investigates the two Yardie gangs at the heart of the killings; with 10,000 members between them.

East Timor's Sacred Heart and Seven Seven gangs have brought the country to the verge of collapse. More than two-thirds of Timorese youth are believed to be involved in gangs. Crude and, at times, primeval, members undergo bizarre initiation rituals where roots are implanted in their chests to make them believe they are invincible. Ross travels with the United Nations peacekeepers as they witness this youthful nation's descent into anarchy.

"Belize was the first place I was ever given a hand grenade by a gang member". Ross Kemp. Fuelled by unemployment and a rampant drugs trade, gangs are battling a turf war in the slums. Ross meets the gangs that control the streets and sees a fraction of the weapons that make this city so violent.

In Liverpool Ross asks whether the city deserves its reputation for gang and gun violence. He seeks to discover what lies behind the code of silence that makes police work so difficult, a ‘code’ so strong that it influences the way police and the law operate in gang-related cases.

Ross’s examines Middle America’s gang culture with a visit to St. Louis, Missouri; where he takes a look at how an average Midwestern municipality where in a population of 342,000 people, there are around 380,000 guns – and many of these are in the hands of gang members.

Ross travels to Poland to visit the Polish Neo-Nazi football hooligans have become some of the most feared gangs in Europe. Ross joins an elite police riot squad as they escort a notoriously violent hooligan gang and travels to Gorzów, to meet the leaders of the brutal Stilon Fighters.

In Rio de Janeiro, Ross examines the war waging not only between the authorities and the drugs trade, but the rival gangs are locked in bitter feuds for control of the slums. Ross goes to the heart of the troubled regions to uncover how far things have gone and if there is any way back.