El e c t r on i c Ha llw a y ® Case Teaching Resources FROM THE EVANS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS T he Box 353060 · University of Washington · Seattle WA 98195 -3060 www.hallway.org DONALD RUMSFELD AND PRISONER ABUSE AT ABU GHRAIB Facing the Senate Armed Services Committees on May 7‚ 2004‚ Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld responded to the question of whether he would resign over the recently exposed prisoner abuse allegations in Iraq: “Needless to say‚ if I felt I could not be
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In August of 1971‚ a group of researchers‚ headed by Dr. Philip Zimbardo‚ at Stanford University‚ set out to learn just how prison affects a person psychologically. The results of this experiment were shocking‚ to say the least‚ and led that team of researchers‚ and many others‚ to question just how bad the prison systems of America really are. The results of this experiment were far more devastating and shocking than anyone involved had imagined. Those involved had forgotten they were playing
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Obedience to Our Parents To be obedient is to obey the orders of one’s elders and superiors. There cannot be order unless there is obedience. One has to obey the laws of the country‚ otherwise the society cannot exist. The laws may be irksome‚ but‚ for the overall good of the law one must obey them. For instance‚ the laws to be obeyed on the road ensures road safety. The laws pertaining to property help society continue without hitches and hindrances. Even in our body our limbs obey the commands
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In The Abu Ghraib Prison Scandal: Sources of Sadism by Marianne Szegedy-Maszak‚ Szegedy-Maszak says that rationalizing the stark change in mentality of the young American soldiers who kept watch over the Iraqi prisoners in the Abu Ghraib prison would be a very challenging task. Some may blame inexperience or dereliction of duty by commanding officers. Others may say that stress caused by living in a war zone was responsible. However‚ it has become clear that no single reason would be sufficient to
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Cody Porter ACP Comp‚ Period 2 November 25‚ 2013 Redo Critique Paper Diana Baumrind’s Review on Obedience Experiments from Stanley Milgram In Diana Baumrind’s “Review on Obedience Experiments from Stanley Milgram‚ she asserted that his experiments were unethical in its procedure. She also states the main idea that the variables in the experiments could have affected their results of obedience. Baumrind points out that there should have been more and better steps in having safer tests in protecting
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The Stanford prison and BBC prison Experiments comparison In summary the studies showed that the behavior of the ‘normal’ students who had been randomly allocated to each condition‚ was affected by the role they had been assigned‚ to the extent that they seemed to believe in their allocated positions. The studies therefore reject the dispositional hypothesis. The Stanford Prison Experiment demonstrates the powerful role that the situation can play in human behavior. Because the guards were placed
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America ’s Accountability to its Constitution and the Events at Abu Ghraib - ... While I agree that “severe” is a matter of perspective‚ what went on at Abu Ghraib‚ the depraved acts against Iraqis and humanity‚ were certainly torture. Trying to argue against that point would be somewhere on the order of arguing against gravity. The pictures speak for themselves (Unauthored). And also consider this: the woman who took the infamous Abu Ghraib photographs was “…convicted by a court-martial‚ in May of 2005
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American contemporary social psychologist and was a professor of psychology at Stanford University. Zimbardo is best known for his Stanford Prison Experiment where he wanted to explore the idea of power of anonymity which enables the tendency of violent behaviours regardless of if‚ they are overall good people. Therefore‚ he held an experiment with 24 “good apples” (Zimbardo 52) in a role-playing exercise that simulated prison life. He wanted to test how promptly a person is willing to uphold the roles
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key issue for obedience‚ discuss by using theories/studies from obedience for what happened in Abu Ghraib The Abu Ghraib prison is a notorious prison in Iraq‚ located in Abu Ghraib‚ near Baghdad. US soldiers were told to abuse and humiliate the prisoners by their leaders; this included chaining them up‚ treating them like dogs‚ and sometimes sexually harassing them. In April 2004 the abuses at Abu Ghraib were exposed with photos and videos showing US soldiers abusing naked Iraqis. On the 22nd October
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How does ‘Lyndiee England at Abu Ghraib’ help us to understand why good people to bad things? Lyndiee‚ before being posted in Iraq‚ was an innocent soldier or a ‘good person’. However‚ when she tortured the prisoners in Abu Ghraib to the extent the actions were deemed to be an example of dehumanisation‚ she was labelled a bad person by society. When I watched the video I became aware that she was still a good person but she had just done bad things because of the situation she was in and
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