interactionist theories

• Interactionist theories-both can be used to criticise dispositional and situational explanations as they only focus on one factor
• Jiang and Fisher-Giorlando (2002) suggest that the importation model is a better explanation of violence between inmates, but the deprivation model is more useful in understanding inmate aggression against prison staff.(blame the guards)
• Dobbs and Wald (2004) argue in favour of an interactionist model. Inmates entering prison for the first time will suffer deprivation. But deprivation does not necessarily lead to violence unless or until it combines with the individual aggressive characteristics imported into the prison by inmates, and which influence the prison's culture.