Institutional Aggression
- Created by: jessmccamley
- Created on: 13-06-18 12:51
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- Institutional Aggression
- Situational -Deprivation Model
- Aggression occurs as a result of the conditions within the prison
- 1. Deprivation of liberty - loss of personal rights
- 2. Deprivation of goods and services - prisons have less access to the goods available on the outside
- 3. Deprivation of heterosexual relations - leading to sexual frustration
- 4. Deprivation of autonomy - prisoners do not make basic choices for themselves
- 5. Deprivation of security - lack of protection against threats
- AO3
- Supporting evidence
- McCorckle et al.
- There is a relationship between overcrowding, lack of privacy, lack of activity and tendency towards aggression.
- McCorckle et al.
- Application
- Has helped to change the way prisons are run to decrease aggression
- Contrasting evidence
- Meta analysis of data from 58 US prisons found that race, age, and criminal record were the only factors that appeared to influence aggression
- Supporting evidence
- Aggression occurs as a result of the conditions within the prison
- Dispositional - Importation Model
- The idea that prisoners bring their values and traits from the outside to shape the prison experience
- i.e. the focus on gang values within prison communities
- This leads to the creation of prison subcultures that create divides and gang mentalities
- Irwin and Cressey
- I remember it by imagining a prison fight, and at the end one of them goes "IrWIN"
- AO3
- Support
- Mears et al.
- Found that a 'code of the street' belief system was common law among prison social systems, especially in those who had come from gangs
- Mears et al.
- Evidencce against
- A study of 800 male inmates found no evidence between gang involvement and prison aggression
- Support
- The idea that prisoners bring their values and traits from the outside to shape the prison experience
- Situational -Deprivation Model
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