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Institutional aggression in prisons Flashcards

1
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What are the 2 explanations of institutional aggression?

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Situational and dispositional

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What is institutional aggression?

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Aggressive acts within violent institutions like prisons

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What is a dispositional explanation?

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It emphasises the cause of behaviour being a personal characteristic of the individual

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Who created the importation model?

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Irwin and Cressey

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What does the importation model suggest?

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That aggression in prisons is caused by the violent personalities of the prisoners

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What is a situational explanation?

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It emphasises the cause of behaviour being due to the context an individual is in

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7
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What are the conditions like in prisons?

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Unpleasant

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Who proposed the deprivation model?

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Sykes

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9
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What does the deprivation model suggest?

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That institutional aggression is the direct result of situational losses

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What four aspects are mentioned in the deprivation model?

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Security, goods, relationships and autonomy

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What three situational factors not mentioned in the deprivation model can also lead to institutional aggression?

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Noise, temperature and overcrowding

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Who provides research support for dispositional explanations of institutional aggression?

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Mears et al

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13
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What did Mears et al test?

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The theory that inmate behaviour stems from imported characteristics

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What type of study did Mears et al conduct?

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A longitudinal study

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Who did Mears et al study?

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Children from areas with lots of gangs

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When Mears et al’s participants reached adulthood, what did they measure?

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Looked at which ones ended up in prison, and measured their violence levels

17
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What did Mears et al find?

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That the inmates who had joined gangs were more likely to act aggressively and believe in the ‘code of the streets’

18
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Who provides contradictory research for dispositional explanations of institutional aggression?

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DeLisi

19
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What exactly does DeLisi’s research contradict?

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The belief that pre-prison gang membership determines institutional aggression

20
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What were DeLisi’s findings?

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That inmates who were previously in gangs were no more likely to act aggressively in prison than those who weren’t in gangs

21
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What is a criticism of DeLisi’s study?

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The fact that most of the gang members were isolated from other inmates, which reduces the opportunity for violent acts

22
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What prison provides a RWA for situational explanations of institutional aggression?

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HMP Woodhill

23
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Who was in charge of HMP Woodhill?

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David Wilson

24
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Before changes were made, what was inmate behaviour like at HMP Woodhill?

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Frequent riots + violence

25
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What changes did David Wilson make to HMP Woodhill?

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He reduced the noise and temperature levels + reduced overcrowding

26
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What did David Wilson’s changes to HMP Woodhill lead to?

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Virtually no institutional aggression

27
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How can the use of HMP Woodhill to support situational explanations of aggression be countered?

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It was a case study with no control group, so limited generalisability

28
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Who provides contradictory research for situational explanations of institutional aggression?

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Harer and Steffensmeier

29
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How many prisons were included in Harer and Steffensmeier’s study?

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58

30
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How many prisoners were included in Harer and Steffensmeier’s study?

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Over 24000

31
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What factors did Harer and Steffensmeier analyse?

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Situational (e.g. overcrowding and noise levels) and dispositional (e.g. age and criminal history)

32
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What did Harer and Steffensmeier find?

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The only significant variables for predicting institutional aggression were dispositional factors

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