Similarities Between Stanford Prison Experiment And Abu Ghraib

What causes one to sodomize, urinate on and abusing the mind of a man? To receive certain reaction from individuals people do certain thing. For hundreds of years behind the walls of prisons and different facilities, people have gone to extreme measures to receive information. In Abu Ghraib, which is now known as Abu Ghraib scandal many of the military personnel were charged with multiple crimes due to the humanely and unfair treatment of their prisoners. During the war in 2003 under the control of bush, a confinement institution came about to detain prisoners. While living in these harsh camps, the prisoners received brutal treatment. Following this horrific event, the Stanford prison experiment came about. The Stanford experiment was school

Within both of these facilities, some type of torture was done. This is one of the huge factors. Both Stanford and Abu Ghraib used psychological tactics, small amount of mental torture such as non-physical which later escalated to physical and deadly torture. Even though Stanford Prisons never escalated to physical damage, torture was a major factor in both facilities. Prisoners in Abu Ghraib and case studies in the Stanford prison experiment both experienced humiliated. Another factor was the unprofessionalism. Stanford prison experiment consisted of college student that wasn’t really aware of what they were getting themselves. At Abu Ghraib, the officials were unknowledgeable of their duties. They didn’t receive information on how to proceed once behind the walls. The military personnel’s didn’t have sufficient training, which led to the unprofessionalism. Situation that should have been addressed wasn’t. There was a lack of consistency and many confused military

In Stanford prison experiment the guards and prisoners adapted to their roles more than they were expected and in Abu Ghraib the guards became use to punishing the prisoners that the beating became natural. They began to adjust to certain behaviors. They became use to the lifestyle, which also led into another factor culture. Culture played a factor; the guards had acquired a certain environment they were used to. There was a high level of misconduct and it continued to grow due to the amount of torture increasing. Everything about their culture was negative, new changes were needed. Most influential factor was the lack of leadership. Leadership plays a huge role in ethical officers. The officers had no leadership. Dealing with Abu Ghraib, the military unethical corruption spread from the higher ranked military personnel’s to the rest of the military personnel also called rotten apple theory/rotten bushel. Multiple officers committed crimes together, helping each other, encouraging each other to do the crime and taking picture while in the process of doing the crime. In Stanford prison experiment, one of more guards would engage in an illegal act and others would later follow making it a group act. They were unaware of what they should do when a prisoner disobey, when one guard made a move to correct the behavior of the prisoner, the other guards followed