INSTITUTIONAL AGGRESSION

INSTITUTIONAL AGGRESSION

1. AO2

   • + MCCORKLE ET AL : FOUND OVER CROWDING, LACK OF PRIVACY, AND LACK OF MEANINGFUL ACTIVITY ALL SIGNIFICANTLY INFLUENCES PEER AGGRESSION AND VIOLENCE IN PRISONS. THIS SHOWS INSTITUTIONAL AGGRESSION OCCURS DUE TO OPPRESSION AND STRESS OF THE INSTITUTE ITSELF.
     • HARER AND STEFFENMIER : BLACK INMATES HAD HIGH LEVELS OF VIOLENT BEHAVIOUR, BUT LOWER RATES OF ALCOHOL AND DRUG RELATED MISCONDUCT, THAN WHITE INMATES. THESE PATTERNS PARALLE RACIAL DIFFERENCES IN THESE BEHAVIOURS IN THE US. WHAT LIKE BEFORE CONTINUED IN PRISON.

2. AO3

   • - GENDER BIAS : MAINLY INVOLVE MEN, CONDUCTED ON MALE PRISONS. CANT GENERALISE RESULTS TO FEMALE. FARR : FOUND FEMALE INMATES HAVE SUBSTANTIALLY LOWER RATES OF VIOLENT CRIME COMPARED TO MALE INMATES. ONLY APPLIES TO MALES.
     • + REAL WORLD APPLICATION : WILSON : ADJUSTED REASON THAT INFLUENCE VIOLENCE: TEMP, CROWDING, NOISE. HE REDUCED THESE AND FOUND A DEDUCTION IN VIOLENCE. LED TO THEM CHANGING THERE REGIMES, AND DEVELOPING PRISONS DIFFERENTLY.

3. AO1

   • DEPRIVATION MODEL : PATERLINE AND PETERSON : SITUATIONAL FACTORS ARE TO BLAME. OCCURS DUE TO A STRESSFUL AND OPPRESSIVE SITUATION OF THE INSTIUTE ITSELF. PRISONS ARE OFTEN OVERCROWRED, LACK OF PERSONAL SPACE, LITTLE NATURAL LIGHT. SYKES : IN A PRISON, LACK OF FREEDOM, LACK OF AUTHORITY, AND LACK OF SECURITY ARE LINKED TO AN INCREASE IN VIOLENCE.
     • IMPORTATION MODEL : PEOPLE BRING THERE SOCIAL HISTORIES, AND PERSONALITY TRAITS WITH THEM INTO THE INSTITUTION AND THEY CONTINUE TO BEHAVE IN THE SAME WAY. ARMY AND PRISON ATTRACT PEOPLE WITH AGGRESSIVE TENDENCIES, AND AGGRESSION IS SEEN TO ESCALATE IN THESE INSTITUTIONS, THESE TRAITS ARE KNOWN AS INTERPERSONAL FACTORS. ALLENDER AND MARCELL : MEMBERS OF STREET GANGS OFFENDED AT HIGHER RATES THAN NON GANG MEMBERS, AND ACCOUNT FOR A NUMBER OF VIOLENT AND SERIOUS CRIMES.