Institutional aggression in the context of prisons

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What are the two factors that cause instiutional aggression?
Dispositional and situational
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What is the situational explanation?
Aggression is caused by harsh prison environments, includes the deprivation model
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What is the Deprivation Model?
Consists of freedom, resources, safety+heterosexual intimacy, some withdraw+others become violent, increases competition
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What does this argue?
That aggression is caused by prison-specific circumstances
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What are the 'certain circumstances' in which prisoners will become aggressive?
Overcrowding, Heat+Noise, Job Burnout=prison staff worn out+care less about prisoners and may treat them worse
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Common causes for homicides in prison (support for situational)
Analysed 35 inmate homicides in Texas prisons, motivations from deprivation, particularly over drugs and personal possessions
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Criticism of lack of heterosexual intimacy
256 inmates in male+female prisons with conjugal visits, found no link between these visits and reduced aggression, however could be argued as 1 type of environmental factor
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What are the dispositional explanations?
Known as the Importation Model, prisoners bring subculture of criminality with them,
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What is the role of gang membership?
Gangs are constantly linked to violence, study of 1000 inmates involved in gangs more likely to commit various misconduct
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Study of prisoners in high+low security prison
They found 33% in the lower security and 36% in the higher were involved in aggressive misconduct within two years, suggests dispositional factor
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