Institutional Aggression
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- Created on: 27-04-14 14:19
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- Institutional Aggression
- AO1
- Importation Model
- Irwin & Cressey
- People who enter prison already have values and attitudes predisposing them to aggression
- Institutional aggression not a product of institution itself but the characteristics of violent individuals entering into prison
- Three Subcultures
- Criminal Subcultture
- Convict Subculture
- Conventional Subculture
- Filled with one time offenders who reject both other subcultures
- Three Subcultures
- Institutional aggression not a product of institution itself but the characteristics of violent individuals entering into prison
- People who enter prison already have values and attitudes predisposing them to aggression
- Real Life Example
- Attica Riots
- Many inmates came from poor socio economic backgrounds gang membership common
- 54% prison population were black as were the vast majority of the rioters themseves
- Many inmates came from poor socio economic backgrounds gang membership common
- Attica Riots
- AO2
- Supporting Evidence
- Kane & Janus found greater periods of unemployment and lower level of education were correlational with greater likelihood of aggression while imprisoned
- DeLinski studied prison records of 832 US male inmates in order to address prison violence records of inmates in gangs
- Found small but significant relationship between gang membership and prison aggression
- Deprivation Model
- AO1
- Sykes
- Characteristics of prison itself account for violence in prisons
- Experience of imprisonment causes extreme stress and frustration leads to violence against other inmates and prison staff
- Sykes' Three Factors
- Deprivation of Liberty
- Means that the prisoners are morally rejected by society
- Deprivation of Auutonomy
- Deprivation of Heterosexual Relationships
- Deprivation of Liberty
- Sykes' Three Factors
- Experience of imprisonment causes extreme stress and frustration leads to violence against other inmates and prison staff
- Characteristics of prison itself account for violence in prisons
- Real Life Example
- Strangeways
- Inmates subjected to deprivation
- Complained of poor living conditions like overcrowding, lack of excercise and showering facilities
- Caused stress & frustration leading to violence against officers and inmates
- Complained of poor living conditions like overcrowding, lack of excercise and showering facilities
- Inmates subjected to deprivation
- Strangeways
- AO2
- Supporting Evidence
- McKorkle found overcrowding, lack of privacy & meaningful activity in prisons influenced institutional aggression
- Light found as overcrowding in male prisons increases, so does violence levels
- McKorkle found overcrowding, lack of privacy & meaningful activity in prisons influenced institutional aggression
- Adds validity to deprivation model showing deprivation of liberty lead to aggression in an institution
- Not Conclusive
- Poole & Regoli found among male juvenile offenders in four different institutions, pre-institutional aggression best predictor of inmate aggression
- Regardless of how crowded it was
- Findings reduce validity deprivation model as an explanation of institutional aggression
- By suggesting pre-existing factors main cause of institutional aggression
- Findings reduce validity deprivation model as an explanation of institutional aggression
- Regardless of how crowded it was
- Poole & Regoli found among male juvenile offenders in four different institutions, pre-institutional aggression best predictor of inmate aggression
- Supporting Evidence
- DeLinski studied prison records of 832 US male inmates in order to address prison violence records of inmates in gangs
- Kane & Janus found greater periods of unemployment and lower level of education were correlational with greater likelihood of aggression while imprisoned
- Supporting Evidence
- Irwin & Cressey
- Importation Model
- AO1
- IDA
- AO1
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