Institutional Flashcards
What did Peterson and Peterson (1999) establish? (Institutional aggression)
Deprivation model -situational factors
What does the deprivation model suggest? (Institutional aggression)
Aggression is caused by stressful and oppressive conditions
What characteristics are shown through the deprivation model? (Institutional aggression)
Limited exercise, limited space, controlled food consumption etc
What did Irwin and Cressey (1962) establish? (Institutional aggression)
People bring their own personalities into a situation
What does the importation model suggest? (Institutional aggression)
An individual’s normative state that is brought in may be a predisposition or SLT
What were Zimbardo’s (1971) procedures? (Institutional aggression)
- Experiment in Stanford university
- 24 males
- half guards and half prisoners
- stopped after 6 days (not 14)
What does Zimbardo’s experiment support? (Institutional aggression)
Deprivation model
What were established among the guards in Zimbardo’s experiment? (Institutional aggression)
New norms
How can Zimbardo’s experiment be criticised? (Institutional aggression)
Ethical issues
What did McCorkle (1995) find? (Institutional aggression)
Overcrowding, lack of privacy and lack of meaningful activity increased peer violence
What did Nijman (1999) find? (Institutional aggression)
Increased personal space failed to decrease violence incident among patients in psychiatric institution
What is Norway’s reoffending rate compared to the UK’s? (Institutional aggression)
Norway = 30% U.K. = 60%
RLA
? (Institutional aggression)
Abu Ghraib
What two models are associated with institutions? (Institutional aggression)
Deprivation model and importation model
