Institutional aggression is thought to be caused by situational forces which are factors present in social situations which can collectively encourage aggressive and anti-social behaviour that would otherwise not be seen. Zimbardo applied this theory to the Iraq prison atrocities in Abu Gharib where prisoners of war were subjected to degrading and dehumanising treatments from US prison guards. He claimed that three main situational forces caused the guards to behave in such a way: status and power; revenge; and deindividuation. As the soldiers were the ‘bottom of the barrel’ army reserves on a night shift, they had little power and even had to take orders from civilians so their aggressive behaviour may have been an attempt to demonstrate some control over inferior people. This explains why not all guards behaved in such a manner.
Please look over my study and the options I have provided and thoroughly review my report. Prison Overcrowding Prepared For: Dr Judy Rosenberg, CLC English 126 Professor Prepared By: Meghan Bradley, CLC English 126 Student November 11, 2006 1
A Clockwork Orange is about one teenage boy named Alex whose goal in life was to mainly cause trouble. He was in a “gang”, so to say, with his three other friends and they would go around either create adultery by raping women in their homes or going to the local stores and wrecking up the place. When Alex was finally stabbed in the back by his so called “friends” he was sent to jail for murdering a woman. While spending time in jail he learned of a therapy technique that was looking for candidates for testing and would initially take time off the prison sentence for participating. Alex was initially chosen and soon learned that this “therapy” was more like torture and he was forced to watch countless hours of gruesome crimes, some that he committed himself.
Homework 2: Middlemist’s Ethics Several ethical violations from the Middlemist’s study arise, first the methodology used to conduct the research. Under the procedure section, it states “subjects were forced” to use a certain urinal. By forcing subjects into a particular situation, you are taking away their choice. In addition, the absence of informed consent essentially pressured the unknowing participant to remain at the urinal as to not violate any social norms. Accompanying the restriction of urinal selection is the fact that there is an interaction between the subject and the confederate.
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.
After the experiment Zimbardo thoroughly analyzed what had happened. He found that even when good people are placed in an evil and negative environment; the people essentially are consumed by the evil. All of the test subjects, both guards and prisoners, became mentally confined by their roles in the experiment. When the students
He calls self-esteem, "the sociometer model." Poor interaction symptoms result from a person’s fear of societal rejection. According to Leary, increasing the person’s sense of belonging to a social group solves the problem. The group need not regard the person highly, they must simply include the person. Once this occurs, the patient’s symptoms begin to disappear and his self-esteem
Use information you gained from reading your textbook and from the articles Angola and Plantation model of imprisonment. These articles are posted in COURSE DOCUMENTS on Bb (This answer will be required by everyone). 4. What did you learn about imprisonment in the Louisiana state penitentiary power point presentation you saw and the chart you created in class. List at least 5 things you learned about the history of imprisonment from these exercises.
09/07/2012 Stanford Prison Experiment Zimbardo’s prisoner-guard experiment is where a group of young men were rounded up by the police department and taken to a mock jail in Stanford university (Alexander, 2001). They were treated exactly like real prisoners would have been treated: sprayed for lice, strip searched and locked up with chains round their ankles (Alexander, 2001). There were men who were chosen to play the guards and they were given the authority to dictate 24-hours a day rules and soon turned to humiliating the prisoners to break their will (Alexander, 2001). “‘In a few days, the role dominated the person,’ Zimbardo -- now president-elect of the American Psychological Association -- recalled. ‘They became guards and prisoners.’ So disturbing was the transformation that Zimbardo ordered the experiment abruptly ended,” (Alexander, 2001).
Prison Comparison and Contrast Carolyn C. Griffith CJA/235 University of Phoenix February 17, 2012 In the following paragraphs a comparison and contrast of prisons will be conducted. This paper will define and examine the theory of a penitentiary. Also the historical factors and procedures of a penitentiary will be taken into account throughout the paper. A comparison of prisons systems during and after world war two will be made. The impact and involvement that prison labor made at this time period will be addressed.