Institutional Aggression

?

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
  • History of violence was the best indicator of peer violence regardless of situational factors
  • 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
1 of 12

Other questions in this quiz

2. What did Jiang et al. find?

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

3. Which study suggested that prisoners cope with the deprivations in prison in different ways such as violence towards staff and other inmates

  • Sykes
  • Pauline and Peterson

4. Issue of Staub's theory

  • Reduces complex theory of institutional aggression to social factors
  • Bystanders intervention doesn’t end genocide as the theory would suggest, intervention of UN in Rwanda's genocide didn’t end or lessen the genocide as 800,000 died in 100 days
  • Mandel said that the theory was Monocausal

5. Who suggested that 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?

  • Jiang et al.
  • Milgram
  • Staub
  • Pauline and Peterson
View more questions

Comments

No comments have yet been made

Similar Psychology resources:

See all Psychology resources »See all Aggression resources »