institutional aggression

Question 1

dispositional factors- important model

Answer 1

-importation model - those who enter prison with certain characteristics e.g attitudes are more likely to be violent to other inmates,
- meaning its not the institution thats itself making people violent but the characteristics of the people

• younger inmates= difficult adjusting= more likely to have confrontations with other inmates

Question 2

negative dispositional features leads to increased ag

Answer 2

delisi

studie juveniles in cali, imported MANY negative dispositional features e.g childhood trauma, anger etc.

inmates= more likely to engage in suciideal activities/ sexual misconduct, compared to those who had fewer ndf

Question 3

situational factors - deprivation model

Answer 3

• aggression = result of stressful conditions of insitution (paterline + Peterson 99’)
• overcrowding = higher fear + frustration = leads to violence/aggresion on other ppl/staff

e.g in uk, overcrowding = forced to share cells = lined to increase in impersonal violence , self harming/suicides

Question 4

aggression is due to the stress created by the prison itself

Answer 4

• harsh prison conditions = stress= take it out on other inmates as their way of coping
• agression = from other situational factors e.g lock ups, creates frustration as they have less access to goods e.g tvs = so they become more aggressive as a way to cope

Question 5

prison factors are independent on prisoners personalities

Answer 5

-steiner investigated factors predicting aggression in 512 us prisons

found:
inmate on inmate violence = common in prisons where there was a higher amount of female staff AND aa and hispanic inmates

Question 6

ao3 strength, importation model,

Answer 6

p- support for it

e- camp and gaes , put half of male inmate ppts in low security and other half in high security

e- no significant difference, suggests that features of prison environment =. less important than characteristics of inmates when it comes to aggression in prisons

l- strong support for dispositional explanation, as random allocation of inmates to different prisons yet still no significant difference

Question 7

ao3 strength situational explanation

Answer 7

p- supporting research

e- mccorkle et al , found situational factors. eg overcrowding , = increased amount of aggression inmates showed

e- both in on in assault and in and staff assault

l- violence used as form of catharsis, to relieve frustration caused by deprivation in prisons

Question 8

ao3 strength , used to reduce aggression

Answer 8

p- deprivation model can be used to reduce aggression in prisons

e- e.g if most violence happens in overheated overcrowded prisons, then reducing those factors should reduce aggression

e- wilson did this at hmp wood