Institutional aggression
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- Created on: 11-02-13 12:26
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- Discuss how institutional aggression occurs
- Institutions are organisation set up to serve a particular purpose to a particular group of people
- Institutional aggression is aggression occuring in these places
- Prison violence
- Institutional aggression is aggression occuring in these places
- Dispositional model
- People violent in prisons because of characteristics they possess
- Importation theory
- Social histories
- All previous interactions with people
- Traits
- Personality characteristics
- Age
- Peer pressure
- Feel life has been wasted
- Race
- May have had to defend themselves from racism
- Addictions
- Withdrawal symptoms
- Need to use aggression to obtain substance
- Social histories
- Irwin and Cressey
- Prison subcultures
- Professional criminals
- Lack of respect for institution rules
- Characteristics cause them to be sent to prison
- Convicts
- Deprived background
- Seek power
- More violent
- Convicts
- Convicts
- Deprived background
- Seek power
- Conventional
- One-time offenders
- Identify more with staff
- Professional criminals
- Prison subcultures
- Hafen and Steffensmeier
- Black inmates more violence but less alcohol and drug-related misconduct
- Behaved same outside prison
- Results could be misinterpreted by racists
- Could be used as evidence to support discrimination
- Results could be misinterpreted by racists
- Behaved same outside prison
- Black inmates more violence but less alcohol and drug-related misconduct
- Importation theory can't explain why people without violent traits/social histories become violent, vice versa
- Situational model
- Prison environment makes people violent
- Deprivation theory
- Being deprived causes frustration
- Causes aggression
- Relieves frustration
- Obtain things prisons deprive them of
- Liberty
- Autonomy
- Goods and services
- Heterosexual relationships
- Security
- Being deprived causes frustration
- Causes aggression
- Relieves frustration
- Obtain things prisons deprive them of
- Liberty
- Autonomy
- Goods and services
- Heterosexual relationships
- Security
- Being safe from dangerous activities
- Friendships and romantic relationships
- Security
- Heterosexual relationships
- Freedom to do what you want
- Goods and services
- Freedom to go wherever you want
- Autonomy
- Causes aggression
- Being safe from dangerous activities
- Being deprived causes frustration
- Friendships and romantic relationships
- Security
- Heterosexual relationships
- Freedom to do what you want
- Goods and services
- Freedom to go wherever you want
- Autonomy
- Causes aggression
- McCorkle
- Overcrowding,lack of privacy and lack of meaningful activity increase prisoner aggression
- Only correlational
- Overcrowding,lack of privacy and lack of meaningful activity increase prisoner aggression
- Real-life applications
- Prison violence can be reduced by reducing overcrowding and giving prisoners more activities to do
- Socially sensitive
- People could argue that improving prison conditions defeats the point of prison as a punishment
- Socially sensitive
- Prison violence can be reduced by reducing overcrowding and giving prisoners more activities to do
- Natural studies
- High ecological validity
- Low internal validity
- Being deprived causes frustration
- Popcorn model
- Frustration caused by prison situation causes one person to be aggressive, triggering other prisoners to be aggressive
- Institutions are organisation set up to serve a particular purpose to a particular group of people
- Institutions are organisation set up to serve a particular purpose to a particular group of people
- Institutional aggression is aggression occuring in these places
- Prison violence
- Institutional aggression is aggression occuring in these places
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