Institutional Aggression

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

INSTITUTIONAL AGGRESSION

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DEPRIVATION

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OUTLINE

  • The work of Sykes - deprivations
  • Kimmet and Martin - survival
  • Griffin and Vetich

IMPORTATION

Handing Control to the Prisoners

OUTLINE

  • Irwin and Cressy - importation
  • Gang membership
  • Drury and DeLisi
  • Personality traits?

RESEARCH SUPPORT

IMPORTATION

RESEARCH SUPPORT

  • Mears 2013
  • Code of streets does affect prison violence
  • especially prior gang membership

CHALLENGES

CHALLENGES

  • DeLisi (04)
  • Gang members no more likely
  • Alternative view
  • Only because they are segregated

RESEARCH SUPPORT

DEPRIVATION
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RESEARCH SUPPORT

  • McCorkle 95
  • Major study of US prisons
  • overcrowding, lack of privacy, lack of meaningful activity
  • all played a role in inmate - inmate and inmate staff violence
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CHALLENGES

DEPRIVATION
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CHALLENGES

  • Harer and Steffenmeier
  • 24,000 inmates - 58 prisons in US
  • race, age and criminal history were the only predictors
  • none of the situational variables

HMP WOODHILL

APPLICATION

HMP WOODHILL

  • reduced noise - radio
  • increased space
  • controlled temperature
  • eradicated violence
  • reversed due to backlash
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Combining the Models

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Jiang and Fisher-Giorlando (02)

  • Support for both
  • Deprivation a better explanation for violence against staff / guards
  • Importatation a better explanation of violence against other inmates

EXAM QUESTIONS

  • One or more dispositional factors (4)
  • One or more situational factors (4)
  • Discuss dispositional and situational (16)

Nuestra Familia

The Family

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