INSTITUTIONAL AGGRESSION

• EXPLANATIONS FOR INSTITUTIONAL AGGRESSION?

  situational or dispositional
• SITUATION EXPLANATION FOR INSTITUTIONAL AGGRESSION?

  Deprivation Model
• DEPRIVATION MODEL?

  • based on Clemmer's 'prisonization'
  • behaviours of inmates shaped by prison
  • Sykes deprivation of...

  1. goods and services (no status)
  2. freedom
  3. independence
  4. safety (anxiety)
  5. heterosexual relationships
• EVALUATION OF DEPRIVATION MODEL?

  + Cox

  -Hensley et al

  -Light
• COX?

  • less inmates lead to lower inmate-on-inmate aggression
  • for example in Mississippi
  • total population of prisoners decreased by 30% whereas assault rates decrease by 60%
• HENSLEY ET AL?

  • 256 male and female inmates
  • Mississippi
  • conjugal visits allowed
  • no link between conjugal visits and less aggressive behaviour
• LIGHT?

  • 25% of institutional assault had no apparent reason
  • however, prisoners might be hiding motives due to environment
  • so its hard to measure credibility
• DISPOSITIONAL EXPLANATION?

  Importation Model
• IMPORTATION MODEL?

  • Irwin and Cressey
  • characteristics, norms and values of prisoners
  • cohabitation of individuals with aggressive dispositions leads to aggression
• EVALUATION OF IMPORTATION MODEL?

  + DeLisi et al

  -androcentric research
• DELISI ET AL?

  • 813 male inmates
  • negative dispositions (anger, irritability, substance abuse)
  • control group
  • high negative dispositions displayed more physical violence