Interactionist Model

• Jiang and Fisher-Giorlando 


  • Importation model is better explanation of violence between inmates
  • Deprivation model is more useful in understanding inmate aggression against prison staff
• Dobbs and Waid


  Inmates entering a prison for the first time will suffer deprivation but the deprivation does not necessarily lead to violence unless or until it combines with the individual characteristics imported into the prisons by inmates which influences a prison's culture