Kevin Huckabee Stephen F. Austin State University Prepared for: PBA-500 Survey of Public Administration Abstract The subsequent case study‚ prepared by James P. Pfiffner‚ Torture and Public Policy‚ (2010) analyzes the torture and abuse of war prisoners by United States military personnel in Abu Ghraib‚ Iraq‚ and Guantanamo Bay‚ Cuba‚ following photographs of the abuse spread around the world in the fall of 2003. Pfiffner points out that the United States Military‚ Secretary of State Donald Rumsfield
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view of the outside world resulted in time-distorting experiences from the prisoners. c. Consider the psychological consequences of stripping‚ delousing‚ and shaving the heads of prisoners or members of the military. What transformations take place when people go through an experience like this? The transformation that place is solely base on humility. This stripping‚ delousing‚ and shaving of the head made the prisoners feel like the low life in society. d. What prevented "good guards" from
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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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Hussein housed his prisoners but during the Iraqi war U.S soldiers took hold of this prison using it as their own prison for suspected terrorist and people they believed to be aiding terrorist. However what went on behind the walls of this prison was nothing less than admiral behavior‚ on the part of the soldiers. Prisoners were abused‚ humiliated and treated as if their lives had no value. Soldiers took pictures of the acts smiling and laughing near dead bodies and prisoners being subject to torture
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society can intensify these reactions. The prisoners of Abu Ghraib fell into three categories: common criminals; security detainees; and a small number of suspected important leaders of the insurgency against the coalition forces. A fifty-three-page report‚ not meant for public viewing‚ was released after a major investigation into the Army’s prison system. There had many numerous instances of sadistic‚ criminal abuses against the prisoners by a handful of U.S. military guards. The
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Intro- name of the paper A team at Stanford University‚ led by Phillip Zimbardo‚ conducted the Stanford Prison Experiment to investigate causes of conflict between military guards and prisoners. Zimbardo and his team were seeking to observe the inherent personality traits of prisoners and guards and see if this was the chief cause of abusive behavior in these settings (Haney‚ Banks‚ and Zimbardo‚ 1973). This study is one that is well know and well-recognized. Zimbardo and his study are often discussed
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proves that the Iraqi prisoners were easily seen as scapegoats. The problem with this is that fact that the military train people to engage in aggression. Not everyone can control their aggression; in fact‚ there are numerous cases in which it can get out of hand under the pressure if an authoritarian figure. A great example of this would be the Stanford Prison experiment conducted by Philip Zimbardo. In this experiment 24 college students were divided into the roles of Prisoner and Guard and put in
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Today on the bookpost‚ a review of Harry Potter‚ written by J.K. Rowling. Now‚ don’t you worry‚ this isn’t a fangirl screaming that the world can screw itself‚ because Harry Potter is like the best book in the world. I will try to be unbiased. On a book review. Ha! So‚ Harry Potter is one of those books. You know what I’m talking about. It’s the “I haven’t read Harry Potter” and the response from the world is something of an angst filled teenager‚ hissing at sunlight. It is considered the HOLY BOOK
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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 effective‚ I’d resign in a minute. I would not resign simply because people
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Ghraib Prison Scandal: Sources of Sadism‚" Marianne Szegedy- Maszak discusses the horrifying acts of our American soldiers against the Iraqi detainees in the Abu Ghraib prison. The American guards photographed themselves torturing and humiliating the prisoners. Marianna presents the idea that maybe these few guards aren’t just a few bad seeds’ but in fact any average person would commit similar acts given the situation. Marianne Szegedy- Maszak purpose in this article is to persuade us to believe that
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