Aggression- Institutional Flashcards
Explanation one- dispositional causes
Importation model
Inmates enter prison with characteristics, more like to to be involved in interpersonal violence than other inmates
Violence not a product of institution itself but characteristics of individual
Younger inmates difficulty dusting more confrontation with inmates and staff
What is institutional agg
Violent behaviour that exists within, and may be a defining feature of, certain institutions and groups
What did Adams find
Black inmates more involved in interpersonal violence
Enter from disenfranchised environments
Agg is the norm
What is disenfranchised
Subcultures that value agg behaviours
Rewarded and respected
What did Mills, Kroner and Weekes find
Higher levels of serious institutional misconduct associated with alcohol dependence
Situational causes- the deprivation model
Characteristics of prison not prison population that makes violence
What do Harer and Steffensmeirer suggest
Behaviour is due to pains of imprisonment and deprivations
What is the lucifer effect
Prison situation mat cultivate agg due to change in power and status
Researchers into importation model
Kane and Janus
Mills, Kroner and Weekes
Researchers into deprivation model
Johnston
Zimbardo
What did Kane and Janus do
Found lower levels of education, greater perioids of ubemployment and more serious criminal record correlated with greater likelihood of agg
Non whites younger more likely to be agg
What did Johnston
Prison overcrowding leads to increased agg due to competition for resources and tendency to adopt violent defensive, individually or formation of gangs
Evaluation of importation model
Supporting research
No practical applications
Evaluation of deprivation model
Supporting research
Prac apps
General eval of explanations of institutional agg
Difficult to research
