Prison Experiment and Abu Ghraib. Dawud R. Gilmore Worcester State University Psychology 101 Dr. Soysa June 28‚ 2012 Abstract American soldiers brutalized Iraqis. How far does the responsibility go? During the era of Saddam Hussein‚ Abu Ghraib was one of the worlds worst and most notorious prisons. From torture‚ to executions‚ to terrible living conditions. This was the honest view of the horrors of war. The mistreatment at Abu Ghraib took a toll on not only the prisoners‚ but also on how we
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The Critique of "The Abu Ghraib Prison Scandal: Sources of Sadism" In the article "The Abu 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
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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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Torture and Public Policy 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
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Does The Ends Justify the Means: Justifying the use of torture in the name of Public Interest Kenneth Rudominer Florida Gulf Coast University Introduction to Public Administration PAD 6060 Margaret E. Banyan‚ PhD January 20‚ 2013 Does The Ends Justify the Means: Justifying the use of torture in the name of Public Interest Public Administration can be thought of as where the rubber meets the road in the act of governing via the Constitution. Under normal conditions the framework of the
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Reflection #7 Ghost of Abu Ghraib Filmmaker Rory Kennedy takes us thru a firsthand accord of Abu-Ghraib‚ a prison where Saddam 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
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the behavior of normal people under a particular situation. The students who took part in the experiment would play the role of either guard or a prisoner in a mock prison. Most of the students that played as the guards of the mock prison became very cruel as they abused their power and authority over the prisoners. The students that played as the prisoners were frightened and became submissive to the prison guards. The students playing as the prison guards were able to justify their actions because
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he Lucifer Effect raises a fundamental question about the nature of human nature: How is it possible for ordinary‚ average‚ even good people to become perpetrators of evil? In trying to understand unusual‚ or aberrant behavior‚ we often err in focusing exclusively on the inner determinants of genes‚ personality‚ and character‚ as we also tend to ignore what may be the critical catalyst for behavior change in the external Situation or in the System that creates and maintains such situations. I challenge
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captured after September 11‚ 2001. The reason the camp was used is because the rules of transferring prisoners between countries and a chance of a fair trial in the USA was not applicable in Guantanamo Bay. The prisoners faced torture for many years before being released‚ and most of them were banned from contacting anyone in the outside world. The truth about Guantanamo was revealed after one of its prisoners filed a law suit against the US Government saying that Guantanamo broke the rules of the Geneva
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Prisoners were naked for days‚ had their hands and feet chain up to the beds‚ on their feet for many hours‚ had barely to none sleep and many more disgusting and unmoral things. Groupthink started when the first person starts to apply the new policies to the prisoners‚ for example the first time they had prisoner strip naked. They question what they were doing and why they was supposed to treat there people
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