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View: Stanley Milgram Experiment
The Milgram Experiment 1962 Full Documentary - YouTube
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This topic focuses on ethics and the Stanley Milgram experiment. Here, we merge research ethics with real case studies in which actual research participants had their rights violated. The most criminal justice-specific example is the Stanford prison experiment - an infamous study that is still discussed in criminology, sociology, and psychology classes today. You've probably watched this in your other classes. Another infamous case for research methods is the Stanley Milgram Experiment.
Using the classroom materials and any other research materials that you locate, please answer the following essay questions. Be sure to incorporate both documentaries: the original and redo Stanley Milgram experiments.
1. What were the unethical issues that occurred during the Stanley Milgram experiments? List and explain at least two research ethics issues.
2. Imagine you were one of the research participants in this study. What would you have done? How sure are you?
3. Now, imagine you are the lead researcher in this study. If you were to recreate the study, what would you change? What would you do different? Incorporate new variables (or factors), and consider alternatives to the methodology (or design of the experiment). Justify your responses to these questions.
4. The Stanley Milgram Experiment provided insight into obedience among human beings. What findings would you use in policies that impact the criminal justice system today? In other words, how would you use this study to influence, change, and improve the criminal justice system (i.e., police, courts, corrections)?
5. Should this study have been done? Justify your response.