Institutional Aggression

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1. What did McCorke et al find?

  • Stressful situational factors cause individuals to lose their own moral rules and carry out aggressive acts as the responsibility of their actions is diffused onto their leader
  • Lack of meaningful activity, privacy and overcrowding was linked to peer violence
  • When gang members were separated there was a 50% decrease in serious assault rate
  • History of violence was the best indicator of peer violence regardless of situational factors
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2. What was Staub's theory regarding institutional aggression

  • Deprivation Model
  • 5 steps of Genocide
  • Importation model

3. Who suggested the Importation model?

  • Irwin and Cressey
  • Staub
  • Milgram
  • Pauline and Peterson

4. What did Jiang et al. find?

  • Lack of meaningful activity, privacy and overcrowding was linked to peer violence
  • Deprivation explained violence against prison guards and the importation model explained violence against other inmates
  • When space was increased, severity of violence didn't decrease
  • Best indicator of violence in young offenders was history violence before prison, regardless of situational factors

5. What study found that when gang members were separated there was a 50% decrease in serious assault rate?

  • McCorke et al.
  • Pauline and Peterson
  • Fischer
  • Jiang et al.
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