Institutional Aggression

Importation Model (Dispositional)

• Aggression is imported from outside 
• Aggressors not 'black slates' - bring own social histories/personal traits - influences aggression
• inmates with aggressive values, attitudes & experiences(gang, previous criminal activity/weapons, alcohol dependent, demographic(race, age,unemployment, uneducated)
• More aggressive with these traits than without.

Deprivation Model (Situational)

• Aggression is a product of stressful and oppressive conditions
• Catalysed by Management style, staff experience and factors such as noise, temperature and overcrowding.
• Model doesn't deny the possiblity that inmates enter prison with cultural norms that are…