Institutaional aggression
- Created by: Hannah Jeffery
- Created on: 01-03-15 13:55
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- Institutional aggression
- Within group
- importation model
- Irwin and Cressey
- prisoners bring their own social histories and traits into prisons
- People who were more aggressive outside of prison will be more aggressive in prison: they are not 'blank states' when they enter prison
- Irwin and Cressey
- Gang membership
- related to violence and other forms of antisocial behaviour
- studies show that gang membership is the cause of most misconduct
- DeLisi et al. found a slight positive correlation between gang membership and aggression in prison
- huff
- in US people were ten time more likely to commit a murder when in a group
- Fischer found that isolated gang members decreases serious assaults by 50%
- Situational factors
- prisoner or patient aggression is due to stressful or oppressive conditions
- paterline and Peterson
- eg crowding which increases fear and frustration
- staff experience
- Hodgkinson et al
- trainee nurses were more likely to suffer violent assaults that experiences nurses
- due to more mistakes or lack or respect
- Hodgkinson et al
- McCorkle found that overcrowding, lack of privacy and lack of meaningful activity increases violence
- David Wilson
- set up prison units that were sounded with the radio , view of outside, low temperature
- virtually eradicated assaults on prison staff
- real life application
- David Wilson
- prisoner or patient aggression is due to stressful or oppressive conditions
- 'Pains of imprisonment'
- deprivations or prisoners can increase aggression
- loss of liberty, autonomy and loss of security
- Sykes
- potential threat to personal security increase anxiety levels
- some responded with violence against other prisoners and staff
- importation model
- Institutional aggression is aggression that occurs within an institution and is motivated by social forces rather than anger or frustration
- eg in prisons or hospitals
- Between groups
- Institution can refer to a whole section of society defined by ethnicity or religion
- can occur when there is hostility or hatred between two groups
- Eg the murdering of 6 million jews by the Nazis
- The nazis wanted to purge everything non-germanic out of germany
- Staub's process of genocide
- 1.difficult social conditions
- treaty of of verssailes crippled Germany
- 2.less powerful group is blamed for the hardship
- Jews were doing well economically
- 3. dehumanisation of target rules
- all their possessions taken away
- 4. Moral values and rules become inapplicable and killings begin
- gas chambers open
- 5. The passivity of bystanders enhances the process
- German citizens allowed this to happen
- 1.difficult social conditions
- dehumanisation
- humans have moral inhibitions
- by making victims seem like worthless animals guilt is taken away
- Obedience to authority
- Milgram uses the prestigious setting of yale to convince participants to give confederates harmful electric shock for the sake of the experience
- 65% went to 450 volts
- monocausal
- eg anti- Semitism allows people to Condon the Nazi's actions
- Within group
- Gang membership
- related to violence and other forms of antisocial behaviour
- studies show that gang membership is the cause of most misconduct
- DeLisi et al. found a slight positive correlation between gang membership and aggression in prison
- huff
- in US people were ten time more likely to commit a murder when in a group
- Fischer found that isolated gang members decreases serious assaults by 50%
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