A lot goes into classifying a psychopath; they are very manipulative but well liked and charming because of their incredible talent to hide under a facade of normality. I chose a very interesting article on how being classified as a psychopath can seal your fate. Before parole, prisoners are required to take the PCL-R or the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised to determine if they are considered a psychopath. Many prisoners score high on this test and it confirms that they are not going to be able to get out on parole or even at all, it’s very risky to release someone from prison with a high score on the PCL-R because of their high likelihood to commit another crime and the fact that the government has nothing to gain from releasing them. Back when Bob Hare had first come out with this checklist nobody had really considered what made a psychopath a psychopath, but Bob Hare opens up a new way of thinking.
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. At first, during the second day of the experiment, the prisoners joined together with rebellion by putting the rails of their beds against the door. Prisoner 819 that started the rebellion was put in the solitary confinement room they called “the hole”, while the remaining prisoners were punished for what that prisoner did. After a while they stopped rebelling with each other because the guards punishments became more intense. It became every prisoner for himself.
The utilitarianism is asked to consider its effects on the entire population over an infinite period of time. Personally, I feel the Leaders such as the Wardens and Superintendents of these facilities need to comply and follow the rules and regulations that is prescribed by law and educate your staff and employees is the only way that you can cut down on all of these lawsuits that are pending against prison officials. On the other hand, On December 9, 2010, thousands of prisoners in Georgia made history when they refused to work and remained locked in their cells. Inmates from various parts of Georgia including Augusta, Baldwin, Hancock, Hays, Macon, Smith and Telfair
Critical Response to “Revisiting the Stanford Prison Experiment: A Lesson in the Power of Situation” by Phillip G. Zimbardo Abraham Lincoln once quoted “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man character, give him power”. Power is frequently defined as the ability to influence the behavior or others with or without resistance. The use of power could be seen as good or evil depending on whomever hands it falls into. In the article “Revisiting the Stanford Prison Experiment…,” Zimbardo does an experiment to prove his theory on “what happens to essentially good people when they are placed in positions of power in a prison situation” (Zimbardo 302). The experiment shows that every man, even a good one, can in circumstances do horrible things.
Most prisons are badly maintained and often controlled by negligent prison warders Many people died of diseases like gaol fever, which was a form of typhus. The Criminal Justice Act 1948 abolished penal servitude, hard labor and flogging. It also presented a comprehensive system for the punishment and treatment of offenders. Prison was still at the centre of the system, but the institutions took many different forms including remand centers, detention centers and borstal institutions. In April 1993 the Prison Service became an Agency of government.
They selected people who are naturally more inclined to aggression, college students, than true correctional officers. There were three types of guards in the experiment first, stood the tough but fair guards who followed prison rules, these guards were there to play the role as the psychologist has assigned. Secondly, we had the guards who did small favors for the prisoners and hardly ever punished them, which I believe where the ones who placed themselves in the prisoner’s shoes or their emotional sense was on the other side of the situation. Finally the guards who were hostile, dogmatic, and endured prisoner humiliation. These were the guards who began to be over ruled by the character they played and appeared to thoroughly enjoy the power they wielded.
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 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 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.
Prevention and Mitigation Analysis Theresa L. Redden CJA/560 October 24, 2011 Steven Schneider, Instructor Prevention and Mitigation Analysis Violence and disturbances are not uncommon occurrences in prisons across the United States and probably throughout the world. The prison system is full of individuals who although generally may not have been what society would consider violent people, but at some point in their life, they made a decision to commit one violent act, if not many, that landed them in the penal system. The incident on January 18, 2004 at the Arizona Lewis Prison Complex historically was one of the worst altercations to happen within the walls of a prison in the United States of America. With a lot of idle time