Institutional Aggression Flashcards
Gang members - Fischer
Isolating in special management units reduced rates of serious assaults by 50%
Gang members - DeLisi et al
Prior street involvement, no more likely to engage in prison violence
Other factors
Could be because they are isolated
Importation model - Harer and Steffensmeier
Black inmates, higher rates of violent behaviour, lower alcohol/ drug related misconduct than white
Parallel racial differences
Help predict
Deprivation model - Hodgkinson et al.
Trainee nurses more likely to suffer abuse
Training. Experienced nurses deal with aggressive inmates
Deprivation model - Sykes
Threat to personal security increased anxiety levels, even if none.
Rebel with violence
Deprivation model - McCorkle et al
Overcrowding, lack of security, meaningful activity influenced peer violence.
Oppressive conditions p
Real-world application - Wilson
HMP Woodhill. Prison units, noise, temperature, overcrowding reduced.
Sig. reduced assaults.
Political pressure, dev. diff. direction
Deprivation - deterministic
Free will, not every aggressive. Other factors e.g. biological
Both models
Importation - inmates, deprivation - staff. Used together to reduce aggression
Staub’s 5 stages of genocide
Difficult social conditions Scapegoating Dehumanisation Moral values inapplicable, killing begins Enhanced by passivity of bystanders
Staub’s model - bystander effect
Diff. be tree effect on duration and severity. UN can shorten conflict or hasten perpetrators to step up their genocide policy
Importation and deprivation plan
Huff: 10x 3x, Fischer: 50% DeLisi et al: not more Harer and Steffensmeier: parallel Hodgkinson et al: nurses Sykes - security, McCorkle et al Wilson - HMP Woodhill Deterministic Both
Milgram
Could administer electric shocks, Nazi regime would have no trouble making soldiers kill innocent
Gang members - Huff
US, 10x more likely to commit murder, 3x assault someone in public
Address pass, could isolate
