Institutional Aggression Flashcards
What is the Dispositional Theory for Institutional Aggression?
This theory claims that placing numerous violent people into the same environment will inherently result in acts of violence and aggression. As the overall propensity for aggression is already increased, other social forces such as imitation and competition will further the chance of people becoming aggressive towards each other.
What is the Deprivational Theory for Institutional Aggression?
This theory argues that depriving people of material items, environmental stimulus and social contact will massively increase their propensity for aggressive behaviour. Sensations of anger and frustration will inevitably result from such deprivation as people feel dehumanised, with their freedom and autonomy being taken away.
How might foreign prisons provide this theory with evidence?
Institutions in Denmark exist where people have nearly all of their original liberties and material items which they had as regular citizens. Rates of violence are almost zero and people generally co-operate well within these institutions, demonstrating minimal levels of aggression or hostility towards each other.
How would the Nurture theory stand in this topic?
The proponents of Nurture would argue that our chance of exhibiting aggressive behaviour is dictated by our immediate environment. Supporting the deprivation hypothesis, removing people’s freedoms which they’ve experienced for a long time will induce violence.
How might the Nature theory regard this subject?
Nature theorists would claim that the dispositional theory explains how our propensity for aggression must be innate; otherwise, all these violent people could be placed together and they would collaborate rather than become hostile.
