RESOCIALIZATION AND THE LUCIFER EFFECT TOTAL INSTITUTION a
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RE-SOCIALIZATION AND THE LUCIFER EFFECT
TOTAL INSTITUTION • a place of work and residence where a great number of similarly situated people, are cut off from the wider community for a considerable time, together lead an enclosed, formally administered life.
EXAMPLES OF TOTAL INSTITUTIONS Prison Systems Military Bootcamps
RE-SOCIALIZATION • Radically changing a person’s personality by carefully controlling the environment.
PROCESS 1. Break down a person’s identity. • Uniform Haircuts • Surrender Possessions • Strip Searches • Fingerprinting • Isolation
PROCESS 2. Systematically rebuild a person to fit expectations. • Rewards and punishments • Allowed to read a book • Watch Television • Make a Phone Call • Have a Job
THE LUCIFER EFFECT • humans cannot be defined as "good" or "evil" because we have the ability to act as either depending on the situation. • The Stanford Prison Experiment.
QUOTE • "Good people can be induced, seduced, and initiated into behaving in evil ways. They can also be led to act in irrational, stupid, self-destructive, antisocial, and mindless ways when they are immersed in 'total situations' that impact human nature in ways that challenge our sense of the stability and consistency of individual personality, of character, and of morality. "
