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6. What did Allender & Marcell (2003) study?
- Correlation between pre-prison gang membership and prison misconduct
- Deprivation model
- Link between height and prison misconduct
7. What did Huff (1998) find?
- Gang members in US were x10 more likely to commit a murder and x3 more likely to assault someone in public that non-gang counterparts
- Gang members were no more likely to commit violent acts
- Gang members committed more violent acts but had less murders
8. What did Poole & Regoli (1983)
- Best indicator of violence was pre-institutional violence, not situational
- Best indicator of violence was more than 2 people in one cell
- Best indicator of violence was those who go less yard time
9. Why does DeLisi et al (2006) claim that there is no correlation between pre-prison gang membership and prison violence?
- Violent gang members ate isolated from general population
- Gang members just want to get their sentence over and done with
- Gang members assert power through dominance, but without violence
10. Is DeLisi et al (2006) support or opposition for the importation model?
11. What does the importation model suggest?
- Prisoners bring their own personalities, traits and opinions into prisons with them which affects how they act in prison
- Being deprived of luxuries in prison is the cause of violence
- Violence is due to race
12. What does the Deprivation Model suggest?
- Don't Know
- Importing you outside aggression leads to you being aggressive in prison
- Conditions in insutution e..g crowding, lack of luxuries, increased fear and lack of freedom leads to aggressive behaviour
- Going on a hunger strike and depriving yourself of food leads to aggression
13. What did Harer & Steffeninmeiser (2006) find?
- Nothing significant
- Race and violence had no link
- Black inmated had higher signficant rates of violence but lower rates of alcohol and drug related conduct than white inmates
- White inmates had a higher rate of violence but black had a high rate of alcholo and drug abuse
14. What did Wilson (2010) find?
- No link between deprivation and aggression
- Moving prisoners to rooms with a window, lowered temperature and radio led to decresed violence
- Putting inmates in very very small rooms reduced aggression
15. Why is Harer & Steffeinmeiser (2006) influential?
- The patterns they found reflected US society
- It was conducted in a large prison
- They used a reliable method
- It is a quite recent study
16. What did McCorkle et al find?
- Overcrowding, lack of privacy and meanifuly activity all significantly influenced peer violence
- Increases levels of space didnt increase level of violent incidents
- Best indicator of violence among juvenile offenders was pre-institutional violence regardless of nay situational factors
17. What did DeLisi et al (2006) find?
- Inmates with prior street gang membership were no more likely to engage in violence than other inmates
- There was a strong link between pre-prison gang membership and prison violence
- The only reason why there was prison violence was due to deprivation of luxuries
18. What model was proposed my Irwin & Cressey?
- Elaboration-likelihood model
- Importation Model
- Hovland-Yale Model
- Deprivation Model