If you don’t have your Taguba report, take a sheet from the bin

You will read article 15-16 of a U.S. Army Report from 2004. The document reports on a series of specific events. Read the document In your notebooks, jot down your summary of the basic facts of the events described in the case. Things like: Who? (was involved) Where? (was it happening) When? (did it occur) What? (events actually went down)

Upon reading the Taguba report and viewing the images of prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib prison, reconsider the questions, issues, and conclusions of the Zimbardo and Milgram experiments. Consider the insights of both experiments and address the points below in a thoughtful essay of at least four full paragraphs. Using the conclusions drawn from the 1962 obedience experiments, how would Stanley Milgram explain what happened at Abu Ghraib? Compare and contrast Milgram’s view with the way that Philip Zimbardo might explain what happened at Abu Ghraib, using his conclusions drawn from the 1971 Stanford “prison” experiments. In your opinion, and employing what you’ve learned about human behavior under institutional conditions, why do behaviors like these happen? Is there anything about the high school experience at Von Steuben that might be explained by the findings of Zimbardo and Milgram? Are episodes of cruelty and sadism amongst teenagers here at Von explainable by the same principles? b

GRADING RUBRIC Dealt with Zimbardo ___ out of 10 Dealt with Milgram ___ out of 10 Shared your own analysis ___ out of 10 Dealt with Von Steuben teen behavior___ out of 10 Clarity, structure, grammar ___ out of 10 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TOTAL SCORE ___ out of 50