Institutional Aggression
PRESENTATION OUTLINE
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Miami Jail - fight for your shoes
OUTLINE
- The work of Sykes - deprivations
- Kimmet and Martin - survival
- Griffin and Vetich
Handing Control to the Prisoners
OUTLINE
- Irwin and Cressy - importation
- Gang membership
- Drury and DeLisi
- Personality traits?
RESEARCH SUPPORT
- Mears 2013
- Code of streets does affect prison violence
- especially prior gang membership
CHALLENGES
- DeLisi (04)
- Gang members no more likely
- Alternative view
- Only because they are segregated
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
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
- reduced noise - radio
- increased space
- controlled temperature
- eradicated violence
- reversed due to backlash
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)
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