Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse

of the Stanford Prison Experiment and its importance to the abuses in the Abu Ghraib prison by American soldiers. Zimbardo uses the prison experiment to illustrate the dangers of the situation of turning people evil. Zimbardo reflects on similarities between the Stanford experiment and Abu Ghraib. Before discussing the situational forces, one must understand the history, and the living conditions in the Abu Ghraib prison. The Abu Ghraib prison was the place where Saddam Hussein murdered insurgents

routinization, and dehumanization. The article “The Abu Ghraib Prison Scandal: Sources of Sadism” by Marianne Szegedy-Maszak talks about the three traits of torture as well and the cause specifically of blind obedience by our military. In A Few Good Men, Dawson and Downey are affected by the motivation not to disobey an order as well as the three traits of torture to lead them to giving Santiago, their platoon mate, a Code Red. The three traits of torture are described as authorization, routinization

Moreover, they are finding out child pornography is a serious form of abuse, and the victims are increasingly even younger. They stated, “In last year’s Japanese cases the majority of victims were middle ad primary school students. In poorer countries, the victims are increasingly even younger child pornography is a serious form of abuse” (2). Victims were a majority of middle school students and had a serious form of abuse. There are also a lot of students that are more narcissistic today. A lot

The acts of torture performed on the inmates at Abu Ghraib were both cruel and inhumane. But what if the reason the guards tortured the inmates was due to the result of obedience from their superiors. The cause of the torture of the prisoners at Abu Ghraib could have stemmed from situational factors instead of the will of a few aggressive soldiers. Authority figures that use persuasive methods can be very influential. There are many circumstantial possibilities as to why the guards treated the

In the pursuit of safety, acceptance, and the public good, many atrocities have been committed in places such as Abu Ghraib and My Lai, where simple, generally harmless people became the wiling torturers and murderers of innocent people. Many claim to have just been following orders, which illustrates a disturbing trend in both the modern military and modern societies as a whole; when forced into an obedient mindset, many normal and everyday people can become tools of destruction and sorrow, uncaringly

pressure and influences of different ideas and people are commonly seen. This idea of good people turning bad was further strengthen in Philip Zimbardo’s Mock Prison Experiment and other past events such as the French Foreign Legion, the guards in the Abu Ghraib prison, and so on. This event demonstrated that even innocent, good beings could transform into an abusive and evil person, given the right conditions and incentives. So what is good and what is evil? Good or morally excellent is most likely the

Summary ‘Torture and public policy’ said about story of brutal torture which arouse in Abu Ghraib. Brutal torture was outcome of chain of actions. Although upper officer did not intend make it occur. This is chronological order which bring about brutal torture. 1. President Bush and Secretary Rumsfeld decided, against the advice of some professional military officers, to limi the number of troops sen to Iraq. 2. President Bush decided that the Geneva Conventions

1. Training, acceptance and Moral courage. The first failing was in assessing Sir Malcolm’s present suitability for the role of DLO; by both the MoD and himself. Sir Malcolm stated ‘I don’t believe I was qualified to do the job, for want of a better word, fully’ but he never felt he was able to share this point prior to taking up the role of CDL. On the part of the MoD, even a wavetop assessment of the current state of the DLO and it’s transformation programme would have either yielded a plan to

to behave against their own nature. The prisoners will follow orders, that could be very stupid, and the guards will give those orders and generally use and abuse their authority. This is because of the social roles that the people are assigned to, and they start to behave according to them. Zimbardo wanted to really understand how and why for example, the Germans behaved as they did during the holocaust, and why and how the prison guards in the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq acted in the way that they

citizens, but the current policy abandons these fundamental facts. Since “Operation Enduring Freedom” began in 2001, prisoners of war have been detained at a military base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Hundreds of the prisoners, called “enemy combatants”, have been held without charges being present or a reasonable timetable for trial. At the time of introduction to the Guantanamo Bay Camp, prisoners are not presented with any potentially committed crimes and have been held years without being able to speak to