Institutional Aggression - Within groups

Question 1

Describe what the importation model is and what the concept surrounds.

Answer 1

Interpersonal factors. Prisoners bring their social backgrounds with them to prison which influences their adaption to the prison. They are not blank slates when entering prison, and many normative systems would be imported.
EG Attica prison and anti-establishment movements

Question 2

Describe what the deprivation model is and what the concept surrounds.

Answer 2

Situational factors. Aggression is the product of stressful and oppressive conditions, such as crowding, staff experience and inducement of fear and frustration.
EG Trainee nurses more likely to suffer violent assault than experienced. More experienced offers less likely to be assaulted in prisons.

Question 3

Describe research supporting the importation model.

Answer 3

Data from 58 prisons showed that black inmates had higher violence but lower alcohol and drug rates than white inmates. Patterns parallel racial differences in US society.

Question 4

How does this research support the importation model?

Answer 4

It shows that behaviours from outside an institution are brought in. This supports the reliability of the model.

Question 5

Describe research supporting the deprivation model.

Answer 5

McCorkle found that overcrowding, lack of privacy, and lack of meaningful activity significantly influence peer violence.

Question 6

How is research into the deprivation model criticised?

Answer 6

Research may not be consistent as in psychiatric institutions, increased personal space failed to decrease levels of violence.
However, participant variables due to psychiatric.