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What has been suggested prisoners bring in eith them

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Inmates bring with them a subculture typical of criminality including beliefs, values, norms, attitudes, learning experience and personal characteristics

2
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Why do inmates import these ideas

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To negotiate their way through the unfamiliar prison environment in which existing inmates use aggression to establish power, status and access to resources

3
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What is aggression the result on

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Individual characteristics of inmates and not of the prison environment

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What do prisoner characteristics include

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Anger and traumatic experiences

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What did DeLisi et al study

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Juvenile delinquents in California institutions Who imported several negative dispositional features e.g. Childhood trauma

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What did DeLisi et al find

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Inmates were more likely to engage in suicidal activity and sexual misconduct - committed more acts of physical violence brought to attention by one of the parole board

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What did Clemmer argue

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That harsh prison conditions cause stress for inmates who cope by behaving aggressively

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What else is aggression influenced by

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Another situational factor - and unpredictable present regime that regularly uses lock-ups to control behaviour

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What do lock ups cause

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Creates frustration and reduces access to goods (e.g. TV)

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In the case of deprivation what is aggression

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This is a recipe for aggression which becomes an adaptive solution to the problem of deprivation

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Give an example of psychological factors

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Deprived of freedom

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Give an example of physical factors

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Deprivation of material goods

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What did Steiner do

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Investigated factors predicting inmate aggression in 512 prisons

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What was found about inmate-on-inmate violence

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Was more common in prisons where there were higher proportions of female staff

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Why are these findings prison level factors?

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Because they are independent of individual characteristics of prisoners - they reliably predicted aggressive behaviour in line with the deprivation model

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Name a strength of institutional aggression

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Importance model is research support - researchers placed half of their male inmate participants in a low security Californian prison and the other half in second highest category - no significant difference between levels of aggression- random allocation of inmates to prisons

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Name a limitation of institutional aggression

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Alternative may be better - researchers claim importation model is inadequate to explain institutional aggression because it ignores roles of prison officials and factors linked to running prisons - proposed ACM which states poorly managed prisons are more likely to experience most serious forms of inmate violence - casts doubt over validity