Inmate Deprivation
According to the study performed by Catherine Marcum, Carly Hilinski-Rosick and Tina Freiburger, certain factors in both the deprivation and importation models can influence an inmate’s tendency to violate prison rules. However, the model that I believe that seems to make the most logical sense is the deprivation model. Deprivation theory suggests that inmate socialization was a specific response to the losses suffered while an individual was imprisoned (Sykes, 1958). In other words, it argues that prison life in general was degrading and can be so stigmatizing that inmates tend to act out aggressively towards staff and other inmates or by violating prison rules in order to cope. The deprivation model explains an inmate’s tendency to violate
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Male inmates tend to participate in sexual relationships, a misbehavior that definitely counts as a rule infraction in many prisons, for the sole purpose of obtaining protection while female inmates participated in sexual relationships to gain companionship. Male inmates also committed more infractions at the beginning of their prison term, but decreased as their sentence progressed unlike women inmates who tend to commit more infractions the longer they stayed incarcerated. This can be attributed to a number of reasons, but a main reason is the length of an inmate’s sentence. For example, as an inmate’s sentence progressed, male inmates fared better than female inmates. They adapted faster to their prison environments and reported having less psychological stress and the feeling their feelings of depression lessened which resulted in less fractions being made. Women inmates on the other had experienced much difficulty in adjusting to their prison environments. Their failure to adjust to their environment caused them to be more concerned for their safety and experience more conflicting feelings which resulted in more infractions being made. The correlation between the level of security and rule violation is another is another variable that is presumed to have an effect on inmate violence. Research shows that overcrowded prison conditions and the restrictive nature of minimum or medium security facilities can intensify the level of misconduct and rule violations than in less secured
Male inmates tend to participate in sexual relationships, a misbehavior that definitely counts as a rule infraction in many prisons, for the sole purpose of obtaining protection while female inmates participated in sexual relationships to gain companionship. Male inmates also committed more infractions at the beginning of their prison term, but decreased as their sentence progressed unlike women inmates who tend to commit more infractions the longer they stayed incarcerated. This can be attributed to a number of reasons, but a main reason is the length of an inmate’s sentence. For example, as an inmate’s sentence progressed, male inmates fared better than female inmates. They adapted faster to their prison environments and reported having less psychological stress and the feeling their feelings of depression lessened which resulted in less fractions being made. Women inmates on the other had experienced much difficulty in adjusting to their prison environments. Their failure to adjust to their environment caused them to be more concerned for their safety and experience more conflicting feelings which resulted in more infractions being made. The correlation between the level of security and rule violation is another is another variable that is presumed to have an effect on inmate violence. Research shows that overcrowded prison conditions and the restrictive nature of minimum or medium security facilities can intensify the level of misconduct and rule violations than in less secured