Explaining Prison Violence

Question 1

What is institution aggression

Answer 1

• can occur within groups or institutions such as prisons or mental institutions
• most of the research seeks to explain whether is it cause because of situational or dispositional factors

Question 2

What is the dispositional explanation

Answer 2

• the importation model
• violence within institutions is a result of people bringing it in from their previous lives
• prisons are violent places because the people within prisons have brought about their violent past and tendencies tend to be violent with them

Question 3

What are the situational explanations

Answer 3

• the deprivation model
• suggests that it isn’t the people within which chase the violence
• it’s the conditions of the prison itself which cause the aggression

Question 4

Main strength ps of deprivation model

Answer 4

:) less deterministic and offers lees socially sensitive dangers
:) avoids putting too much blame in individuals

Question 5

Main weaknesses of deprivation model

Answer 5

:( violence doesn’t occur on a regular basis while the environment remains the same
- occurs in shirt outbursts and it cannot account for this

Question 6

What does this mean if it isn’t deprivation or the importation modal

Answer 6

• mixture of both
• popcorn model
• institutional aggression needs people with potential to explode but will only happen if the situation heat is applied