Clough Marinaro, IsabellaCastelli, PaolaFuschi, Fabiana2025-03-122025-03-122017Fuschi, Fabiana. "Not some bad apples: How people can turn into abuse perpetrators Lesson from Abu Ghraib and Bosnia Herzegovina". Thesis, John Cabot University, Rome, Italy. 2017.https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14490/924Thesis (B.A. in Political Science, Minor in Psychology)--John Cabot University, Spring 2017.This thesis wants to investigate the applicability of Hannah Arendt’s theory on the banality of evil on current episodes of human rights violations. In doing so, two social psychology experiments are taken into consideration: Stanley Milgram’s experiment on obedience and Philip Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison experiment. The variables isolated in both experiments are analyzed in the context of two case studies: US soldiers’ abuses against Iraqi prisoners in the Abu Ghraib prison, and U.N peacekeepers’ involvement in human trafficking of women in post-war Bosnia Herzegovina. The general conclusion that can be drawn is that under particular situational factors, which are examined in detail, average people can display abusive and sadistic behaviors that they would have never imagined to perform under different circumstances.v, 45 pagesenHuman rightsWar and crimeWar crimesPrisoners of warAbu Ghraib PrisonCrimes against womenPhilip G. ZimbardoHuman experimentation in psychologyPrison psychologyThesis