Anger in prisoners: women are different from men

Suter, Jennifer; Byrne, Mitchell K.; Byrne, Stuart; Howells, Kevin; Day, Andrew

doi:10.1016/s0191-8869(01)00105-2

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“…Further, there was no sex difference in reporting hostility (cognitive component) or anger (affective component). This means that women have similar feelings of ill-will and injustice; they become just as angry as men, but inhibit expression of this anger by means of instrumental aggression such as physical and verbal aggression, consistent with findings by Averill [1983] and Suter et al [2002].…”

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Effects of menstrual cycle phase on reporting levels of aggression using the buss and perry aggression questionnaire

Ritter

2003

Aggressive Behavior

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was administered to women at menses and during the midluteal phase of their menstrual cycles to assess changes in reporting aggressive behavior as a function of menstrual phase. Men served as a control group, and also received the questionnaire twice, once at session I and once at session II. Women at menses reported a significantly higher level of physically aggressive behavior than during the midluteal phase. A similar but non-significant trend was found for reporting verbal aggression. There were no changes in reporting of anger or hostility across the menstrual cycle. This produced a significant sex-difference on reporting physical aggression between men and women at the midluteal phase but not at menses. Aggr. Behav. 29:531-538,

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“…The affective component (anger) and the cognitive component (hostility) are not expected to change across the menstrual cycle as women and men do not seem to differ on these dimensions [Averill, 1983;Buss and Perry 1992;Suter et al, 2002]. Further, men are expected to score higher on both physical and verbal aggression.…”

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Effects of menstrual cycle phase on reporting levels of aggression using the buss and perry aggression questionnaire

Ritter

2003

Aggressive Behavior

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“…Some possible differences between men and women might be due more to the way they expressed their feelings than to how they experienced them (Ramírez, Santisteban, Fujihara, & Van Goozen, 2002). Furthermore, studying prisoners, Ireland (2000) found slightly higher physical aggression among women than among men, probably attributable to the fact that female prisoners may represent a more extreme part of the population in regard to characteristics such as physical aggression and anger (Suter, Byrne, Byrne, Howells, & Day, 2002). This might also explain why Cauffman et al (2005), comparing self-control in juvenile delinquents and normal high-school students of both sexes, found greater differences between female offenders and female students than those between the male offenders and students.…”

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The Pleasure of Being Aggressive in Male Incarcerated Criminals

Ramírez¹,

Millana²,

Toldos-Romero³

et al. 2009

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Maximization of pleasure (hedonicity) is a major mechanism in human decision-making by optimizing behavior, as previous research has shown on both sensory pleasure and purely mental pleasure (such as playing videogames or solving mathematical problems). Our group also documented that pleasure is a major factor in decision-making in social situations related to interpersonal aggression: people tend to make aggressive behavioral decisions as a function of the resulting pleasure. The present study tried to verify whether this trend was also found in inmates. To our knowledge, this is the first investigation on the relationship between pleasure and aggression performed in a prison. Fifty three male inmates in a Spanish prison condemned for severe legal transgressions and serving long detention were compared with seventy five male university students who served as controls. They responded to self-reported questionnaires devised to examine how hedonicity influences decision-making in the case of aggressiveness. Socially conflictive situations were described, with four alternative options ranging from passive to highly aggressive response. A similar bell-shaped trend was present in both populations -aggressive behaviors of medium intensity were rated as significantly less unpleasant than the most passive and most aggressive behaviors-, even though the degree of hedonicity was significantly higher in the inmates, who rated mild and moderate aggressive responses as pleasurable. Inmates also voted for an unexpected lower of aggressiveness than controls, which may be explained by social desirability. Conclusion: the sametrend is found in both populations: mild aggressive behavior may be pleasurable to the aggressor, but only up to a certain level. But this seems to be stronger in inmates: they showed hedonicity when experiencing higher level of aggression. Such a result is consistent with a fundamental role of hedonicity in decision making.

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“…PTSD has been associated with both state (situational) and trait (fixed) anger (Chemtob, Novaco, Hamada, Gross & Smith, 1997). As compared with male offenders, female offenders scored higher on scales of state and trait anger, anger reactions, and anger expression, in addition to scoring lower on anger control (Suter, Bryne, Bryne, Howells, & Day, 2002). Specifically, undercontrolled anger expression, both inwardly and outwardly, has been linked with women's aggressive behavior (Swan, Gambone, Fields, Sullivan, & Snow, 2005), as have high levels of inhibition and overcontrolling behaviors (Verona & Carbonell, 2000).…”

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Assessing Short-Term Outcomes of an Intervention for Women Convicted of Violent Crimes

Kubiak

Kim

Fedock

et al. 2012

Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research

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Women convicted of violent offenses represent a small but important subpopulation of women involved in the criminal justice system. Correctional administrators working with these women often rely on treatment and rehabilitation programs developed for violent male offenders. Although women's trajectories into violent behavior-as well as their trajectory out-differ from their male counterparts, the field is marked by the absence of interventions designed specifically for women with violent offenses. As attention grows in the research literature and in community settings about "women who use force" it is important to develop interventions that effectively modify aggressive behavior as well as the underlying precursors of such aggression. This paper describes a pilot study as one step in a developmental approach to intervention research. Beyond Violence, a gender specific and trauma-informed intervention, was piloted with 35 women incarcerated in a state prison with a conviction for a felony-level assault. Short-term outcomes assessed through changes in pre-and posttest measures show reductions in mental health symptoms associated with depression, anxiety, posttraumatic stress disorder, and serious mental illness. The encouraging results of this pilot study have led to the next step in the intervention research process of testing the program in a randomized controlled trial that is currently underway.

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Anger in prisoners: women are different from men

Cited by 71 publications

References 49 publications

Effects of menstrual cycle phase on reporting levels of aggression using the buss and perry aggression questionnaire

Effects of menstrual cycle phase on reporting levels of aggression using the buss and perry aggression questionnaire

The Pleasure of Being Aggressive in Male Incarcerated Criminals

Assessing Short-Term Outcomes of an Intervention for Women Convicted of Violent Crimes

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