Back to quiz

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?

  • Opposition
  • Support

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