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- Title
Importing Aggression: An Examination and Application of Subculture Theories to Prison Violence.
- Authors
Cheeseman, Kelly Ann
- Abstract
Theories of prison violence and behavior are often divided into the indigenous model or importation model. This paper utilizes Irwin and Cressey's (1962) importation model and integrates it with elements of Miller's (1958) theory of a lower-class subculture explain prison violence. The paper also examines other relevant theories of violent subcultures to enhance the argument that most prison violence is not indigenous to the prison but is brought to the institution as part of a pre-existing value.
- Subjects
PRISON violence; AGGRESSION (Psychology); CORRECTIONAL institutions -- Social aspects; DELINQUENT behavior; CRIME; INSTITUTIONALIZED persons; SOCIAL control; VIOLENCE prevention; SUBCULTURES
- Publication
Southwest Journal of Criminal Justice, 2003, Vol 1, Issue 1, p24
- ISSN
1939-442X
- Publication type
Article