Institutional Aggression

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    • What does the importation model argue about prisons?
      Prisons are influenced by outside subcultures
    • What do inmates bring with them according to the importation model?
      Beliefs, norms, attitudes, and personal characteristics
    • How do individual characteristics influence aggression in prisons?
      They shape inmates' behaviors and responses
    • Who proposed the importation model?
      John Irwin and Donald Cressey
    • What is the relationship between inmates' past behaviors and their actions in prison?
      Past behaviors influence aggression in prison
    • What characteristics did Matt Delisi et al. study in juvenile offenders?
      Childhood trauma, anger, substance abuse
    • What outcomes were linked to negative characteristics in inmates?
      Suicidal activity, sexual misconduct, aggression
    • What does the deprivation model focus on?
      Causes of aggression within the prison environment
    • What are some harsh conditions mentioned in the deprivation model?
      Deprivation of freedom and sexual intimacy
    • How does deprivation of material goods relate to aggression?
      It increases competition among inmates
    • What effect does an unpredictable prison regime have on inmates?
      It creates frustration and increases aggression
    • Who investigated factors predicting aggression in US prisons?
      Benjamin Steiner
    • What factors were linked to inmate-on-inmate violence in Steiner's study?
      Higher female staff, overcrowding, protective custody
    • How do prison-level factors differ from individual characteristics?
      They are independent of individual prisoner traits
    • What does the deprivation model suggest about coping mechanisms in prisons?
      Inmates resort to aggression to cope
    • One Weakness of the Deprivation model is research support
      E- Camp and Gaes found that 33% of inmates in low security and 36% in high security prisons were involved in aggressive misconduct
      E-This shows low significance of situational factors as there is little difference between the low/high risk prisons
      L- This reduces the credibility of the model suggesting that we must consider dispositional explanations
    • One Strength of the Deprivation Model is Research Support
      E-Cunningham found that motivations for behaviours were linked to some of the deprivations identified by Clemmer
      E- these are factors predicted by the model
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