Institutional Aggression - Prisons
- Created by: RahmaM
- Created on: 19-04-16 17:41
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- Institutional Aggresion
- Importation Model
- IRWIN & CRESSEY 1962
- Prisoners bring own social histories and traits to prison
- Influences their prison behaviour
- PRISON SUB CULTURE
- Not betraying each other, trustworthy
- Convicts: Having power and info in prison are huge influences in prison
- Individuals use aggression as coping mechanism
- HARRER & STEFFENSMEIER 2006
- Collected 58 US prisons
- Black inmates, higher rates of violent behaviour, lower rates of alcohol, drug related
- Supports racial differences in society seen in prison
- AO3 Large Sample of 58 prisons
- SUPPORTS
- DELISI ET AL 2004
- Inmates with prior street gang involvement no more likely to engage in prison violence
- CHALLENGES
- No real difference - Lack of correlation
- FISCHER 2001
- Isolating known gang members reduces assault by 50%
- Individuals have influence on people not institution
- AO3 Natural Observation no manipulation
- Isolating known gang members reduces assault by 50%
- Deprivation Model
- Daily deprivation - frustration causes aggression
- SYKES 1958
- LIBERTY - Can not be trusted to live freely, morally rejected by society
- AUTONOMY - no power or choice of their lives, feelings of helplessness
- GOODS & SERVICES - Western emphasis on possession make this hard for them, bring about sense of failure
- HETERO SEXUAL RELATION-SHIPS - Sexual frustration, companionship reflects self worth, creates anxieties
- SECURITY - fear of other inmates
- SYKES 1958
- MCCORKE ET AL 1995
- NIMIAN ET AL 1999
- Increased personal space failed to decrease violent incidence
- WEAKENS DEPRIVATION MODEL
- Increased personal space failed to decrease violent incidence
- CHEESEMAN 2003
- Prison aggression because lack of purpose and goods
- SUPPORTS DEPRIVATION MODEL
- Prison aggression because lack of purpose and goods
- Daily deprivation - frustration causes aggression
- REAL WORLD APP
- Deprivation model can be used to improve prison condition to potentially lessen violence
- SOCIALLY SENSITIVE
- Does deprivation model take away all responsible from individual is it justifiable?
- All research done on men, keeps the status quo
- Importation Model
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