SOCA02H3 Chapter : Interpersonal Dynamics..

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I n terpersonal dynam ics i n a simu lated. on purely pragmatic grounds, prisons really neither rehabilitate nor act as a deterrent to future crime. on humanitarian grounds as well, prisons have failed: our mass media are increasingly filled with accounts of atrocities committed daily, man against man, in reaction to the penal system or in the name of it. attempts at explaining the deplorable condition of our penal system, and its dehumanizing effects upon prisoners and guards, characteristically focus upon what can be called the dispositional hypothesis. The dispositional hypothesis has been embraced by the proponents of the prison status quo. The environment of arbitrary custody had great impact upon the affective states of both guards and prisoners as well as upon the interpersonal processes between and within those role-groups. Five prisoners had to be released from the study because of extreme emotional depression, crying, rage or acute anxiety.

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