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Compare and contrast this incident with the My Lai Massacre; how is the recent U.S. mistreatment of Iraq prisoners a crime of obedience as described in the Kelman and Hamilton paper, "The My Lai Massacre?"
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Deviance Final Exam Question #1 - A) Compare and contrast this incident with the My Lai Massacre; how is the recent U.S. mistreatment of Iraq prisoners a crime of obedience as described in the Kelman and Hamilton paper, "The My Lai Massacre?" Answer: The photographs of prisoners mistreated in Iraq are the product of what we call a crime of obedience. Crimes of obedience begin with orders. But orders are often vague and are rarely clear through transition from one authority down to subordinate soldiers. As in the My Lai Massacre, the soldiers in Abu Ghraib and their supervisors, the supervisors who gave the soldiers their orders, were in a dehumanized state of mind. That is why they were able to order and to conduct extreme sexual, mental and physical torture and human rights abuses upon their fellow human beings. Nobody in their government or superior in their chain of command...
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