Institutional aggression
- Created by: Masa milenkovic
- Created on: 13-01-13 14:12
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- institutional aggression
- Educational aggression - Hazing
- Hazing usually occurs on universities where the first year students have to do something to impress the older students which can sometimes be very aggressive
- Criticism as it is unknown is it aggressive as only 1/20 said it is aggressive
- Gender differences in hazing as Huker found that out of 60 deaths in hazing only 3 were girls
- Out of 11. 000 a half of students experience it during admissions
- Research support comes from Martin who found that aggression was increased as
- he gave a questioner to women in university and found that 24% had almost been ***** while 17% had been
- Questioner- self-report , people may lie on them
- Hazing usually occurs on universities where the first year students have to do something to impress the older students which can sometimes be very aggressive
- Prisons
- Skyes argues that there are 5 deprivations which increase violence- liberty, autonomy, goods, hetero-sexual relationships and security
- Zimbardo argues that situational factors increase violence such as heat, noise, overcrowded
- Support from Mc Clark who found that aggression is raised because of overcrowding and lack of privacy
- The Lucifer Affect
- Deprivation as prisoners are suffering from autonomy so they fell the need to express it through aggression
- Research support from ZImbardo who showed that his participats were non-aggressive before the study but when found in a prison became very aggressive which shows that environment and trigger agression
- Imprinting by Irwin who suggests that prisoners bring their personality in the prison and that is why violence occurs
- Research support comes from Harer who investigated 58 US prisoners and found higher rates of violence in black people while in white there were higher rates of drugs
- Sample size was small and it was only males in US
- Research support comes from DeLisi who studied 831 prisoners and found positive correlation between gang membership and violence suggesting that gang subcultural values have been imprinted
- Correlation - it doesn't say the effect and cause of it
- Reductionist as it doesn't take into account situational factors or psychological
- Research support comes from Harer who investigated 58 US prisoners and found higher rates of violence in black people while in white there were higher rates of drugs
- Insitutional aggression can occur between 2 groups - genocide
- Example would be - 6 million Jews which were killed during WW2
- Educational aggression - Hazing
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