Institutionalisatin

Question 1

Situation - deprivation model

Answer 1

Inmates experience deprivation of freedom and safety
Causes stress and leaves only one way to cope which is through aggression.
Other characteristics is overcrowding noise

Question 2

Dispositional - importation

Answer 2

Inmates import pre-existing values attitude including aggreive ones into the prison

Question 3

Evaluation of the deprivation model

Answer 3

Strength - situational factors such as overcrowding significantly influence the amount of aggression both including inmate on inmate assults - suggests that the only way to deal with stress is through aggression

Limitation- harere and steffenmier
Collected data from us prisons including importation and deprivation variables
Found that only importation variables were significant predictors of violence

Question 4

Evaluation of the importation model

Answer 4

Strength- delsi
Studied 831 juvi offenders who brought negative dispositional features into the prison
Inmates commuted more acts of violence compared to the control group
Supports the idea that behaviour stems from the individual

Limitation - delsi
Found that prisoners who were in gangs were more likely to be aggressive - however this could be explained by the fact that street gangs tend to be isolated from general inmate population therefore increasing violence