Institutional Aggression
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- Created on: 13-12-15 10:25
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- Institutional Aggression
- Within groups
- NHS reported 84,000 violent acts against staff in 2000/1
- Prisons reported 26,000 prisoner assaults (US)
- Importation model - Irwin & Cressey
- Prisoners aren't "blank slates"
- They import normative systems into prison
- Nature - personality vs nurture - prison environment
- Prisoners aren't "blank slates"
- Deprivation model - Paterline & Peterson
- Aggression is the product of stressful or oppressive conditions
- Crowding increases fear and frustration
- Hodgkinson/Davies & Burgess - more experience = less assaults
- Aggression is the product of stressful or oppressive conditions
- Hazing
- Institutional bullying
- Allen & Madden
- 1/2 of 11,000 students.
- People participate in awful activities to feel as if they belong
- Illegal in many states
- Alcohol/drugs lowers inhibitions
- Lucifer effect
- 'Them' and 'us' groups
- Sides employ strategies to gain control
- Between groups
- Genocide
- Difficult social conditions
- Scapegoating
- Dehumanising
- Rwanda: radio called the tutsi 'cockroaches
- Moral values are inapplicable
- Killing starts
- Passivity of bystanders
- Passive bystanders signals consent
- Intervention can shorten conflict but hasten it
- Rwanda - 800,000 deaths in 100 days
- Intervention can shorten conflict but hasten it
- Passive bystanders signals consent
- Milgram
- Holocaust was result of situational pressures forcing obedience
- If his study could cause the outcome it did, it would be easy for the nazis
- HMP Woodhill
- Aggression caused by heat, noise and overcrowding
- Set up prisons with improved conditions
- Eradicated assaults but political pressures meant regimes had to change
- Genocide
- Within groups
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