Institutional Aggression Prisons

Institutional Aggression Prisons

1. Beck and Harrison

   • Estimated that as many as 70000 inmates are victims of sexual violence behind bars.

2. Irwin and Cressey

   • Importation model
     • Claim prisoners bring their own social histories and traits with them into prison.

3. Allender and Marcell

   • found that gang members disproportionately engage in acts of prison violence. Pre prison gang membership seems to be an important determinant of prison misconduct.

4. Huff

   • Found gang members in the US were 10x more likely to commit a murder and 3x more likely to assault someone in public.

5. Hodgkinson et al

   • Deprivation model
     • Found trainee nursers were more likely to suffer violent assaults than experienced nurses. In a prison setting, length of service was also a significant factor.

6. Sykes

   • described that specific deprivations that inmates experience within prison and which might be linked to increased violence. Such as loss of security, loss of liberty

7. Harer and Steffensmeimer A02

   • Collected data from 58 prisons and found that black inmates had significant higher rates of violent behaviour but lower levels of alcohol and drug related misconduct than white inmates.

8. DeLisi A02

   • Challenged claimm that pre-prison gang membership predicts violence in prisons. Pre gang were no more likely to engage in prison violence.Lack of correlation might be explained by the fact that violent gang members tend to be isolated from general inmate population.
     • Fischer A02
       • Isolating known gang members in a special management unit reduced rates of assault by 50%.

9. McCorkle

   • Found overcrowding, lack of privacy influenced peer violence.

10. Nijman

    • Increased personal space failed to decrease levels of violence.

11. IDA - HMP WOODHILL

12. Jiang+ Fisher Giorlando

    • combined model.