Taylor Denise Belle February 22, 2012 000743067 The Stanford Prison Experiment The Stanford Prison Experiment was an experiment conducted by Philip Zimbardo in 1971. The purpose of the experiment was to see how the subjects, normal people, would respond psychologically to the roles of prisoner and guard. The experiment was supposed to last for two weeks, with the participants getting $15/day. However, the experiment had to be cut short because of how extreme the conditions began to be. While watching the Stanford Prison Experiment video, I came to find that the prisoners didn’t show much loyalty to each other after a while.
He still has occasion meetings with the participants from the experiment. This experiment that Zimbardo created was a little unusual. It is completely understandable to want to understand more about the minds of prisoners and guards and how they are affected inside the prison walls alone, but Zimbardo seems as though his description of the prisons experimental methods Confer 2 were understated. The rules of the prison were arranged by the psychologists, which caused the guards to behave the way they did. Was this the whole point of telling the guards how to control the prison?
The guards were given a uniform that consisted of a shirt and mirrored sunglasses. At the start of the experiment, in order to make the prison appear as realistic as possible, the prisoners were arrested at their homes and taken to the prison where they were stripped, searched, deloused and given prison uniforms to wear. The intention was to observe and film prison life
The article, Interpersonal Dynamics in a Simulated Prison, written by Philip G. Zimbargo takes us inside the research world of the prison environment and reveals several ethical and behavioral concerns about using social experiments to study human behavior. Zimbargo, a psychology professor at Stanford University, was fascinated with the social dynamics of prison, especially the individual interaction that takes place between guards and prisoners. Zimbardo’s method was simply to take all the accounts of ex-convicts and prison guards and create an environment that most reflected that of an actual prison system. Once that was in place he would assess the inmates using three different psychological tests (List tests) to eliminate perceivable confounds the Zimbardo use a random sample of a population consisting of inhabitants of the Stanford university area. There were 22 participants’ chosen for the role of either guards or inmates and 2 other participants were selected for the role of “warden” and “superintendent.” The guards and inmates were randomly assigned and instructed only on what they needed to know.
Another desire was to learn how social environments influences those roles. Yet, So much more came from this experiment. What happened when this experiment began shocked all and appalled even more. In an attempt to show understanding of the main components learned in this class, through the Stanford prison experiment and understanding and knowledge of “The Phycology of Social Power” The experiment started of when, in 1971, physiologist Philip Zimbardo and his colleagues attempted to create an experiment that examined the impact of of both being a “prisoner “or a “guard”. Zimbardo set up a fake prison in the basement of Stanford University’s psychology building, and along with 24 undergraduate students, who were chosen out of a larger group of 7o for their lack of criminal background, psychological issues, and no serious medical conditions agreed to a 1-2 week period experiment in exchange for $15.00 a day.
The Precautions, Steps, and Measures Taken to Control Gangs and Security Threat Groups in Prison Overview Gangs in America have multiplied at such an extreme that even the smallest counties have reported some forms of gang activity in their communities. When members of these gangs are arrested and convicted on felony charges; they are put into our correctional system and disregarded by the public. However, many of these gang members stay together in prison putting themselves, staff, and other inmates at risk of violence. The troubles presented by gang affiliated inmates until recently have not been widely researched. Due to increasing violence and gang activity numerous steps are now being implemented address gain affiliation in our prison system.
My thesis is on Criminal Justice, the overcrowding in the Prisons in the United States. In the United States we have the problem where there are inmates in prison on death row ,if they would execute the inmates that is on death row we would have the room to put people in the prison for the crimes they have commit instead of letting these inmates out for dealing in drugs, selling these drugs to our children. What about the inmates that have commit sex crimes are they going to let them out for good behavior. The overcrowding in the Prison has to improve in the United States. I have worked in the Women State Prison in Kentucky for about 17 years, I have seen everything in the systems like the women have beauty salons, kitchen with 3 stove where they can choose to eat in the dorms eat steak or anything they want as long they did buy it from the canteen or go to the mess hall to eat.
The Federal Bureau of Prisons has satellite camps where the minimum and low security inmates. The bureau also administrative facilities that can hold the most dangerous and violent criminals. Some of these inmates have life threating medical problems so they have their own medical facilities on these locations. They have these locations, because some of these inmates could try and escape. Martha Stewart is a multimillionaire businesswomen sentenced to five months in prison and two years’ probation for lying to investigators about the sale of IMClone system stocks in 2001 (Masters, 2004).
The Stanford prison experiment was a study of the psychological effects of becoming a prisoner or prison guard. The experiment was conducted at Stanford University from August 14 to August 20 of 1971 by a team of researchers led by psychology professor Philip Zimbardo. The original purpose of the experiment was to observe the effect that being in a prison like institutional setting has upon people, and how they react to being placed in positions both with and without authority. As it developed however, the experiment quickly spiralled out of control, the “guards” abuse of the “prisoners” became excessive causing them far more trauma than the experiment justified. Whether the experiment went horribly wrong or horribly right is entirely a matter of opinion, although the “horrible” seems pretty clear cut.
The experiment was conducted from August 14-20, 1971. Zimbardo’s goal was to understand the psychological effect to people in abusive prisons. Twelve students were selected out of 75 to play the prisoners and live in a mock prison in the basement of the Stanford psychology building. Another twelve of the same 75 were selected to play