THE LEVEL OF AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOUR, DEPRIVATION, WELL BEING AND FRUSTRATION AMONG THE INMATES OF NORTH WESTERN PART OF NIGERIA PRISONS: A CASE STUDY OF SOKOTO CENTRAL PRISON
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The article examines the level of aggressive behavior, deprivation, well being and frustration among the inmates in congested Nigerian prison. Nevertheless, the study elaborated the meaning of aggressive behaviour, factors contributed to aggressive behaviour, theory of aggressive behaviour, literature review, method of data accumulation and information analysis. Thus, prison setting can instigate aggressive behaviors, particularly in Nigeria, where inmates are deprived of their certain right and are treated brutality in some instances studies shows, that Nigerian prisons are not properly coordinated and managed as such, inmates are exposed to all forms of inhumanity. It should be noted that, a condition of deprivation and lack of societal well being especially among people being in an isolated environment as in the case with most prisons in Nigeria can degenerate to frustration and aggression which in turn can result to unwholesome situations such as riots/ violence in the prisons. Aggression can involve violence that may be adaptive under certain conditions in terms of natural selection. This is most evidently the example in terms of attacking prey to obtain food, or in anti-predator defense. It may as well be the case in competition between members of the same species or subgroup, if the fair reward (e.g. Status, access to resources, protection of self or kin) outweighs average costs (e.g. Injury, exclusion from the group, death). There are some hypotheses of specific adaptation to violence in humans under certain circumstances, including for homicide, but it is often unclear what behaviors may have been selected for and what may have been a byproduct, as in the case of collective violence.
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