Moral disengagement operates through graded role specialization in executions

Evidence

The role of moral disengagement in the execution process was explored intensively by Osofsky, Bandura, and Zimbardo (2005) in penitentiaries in three southern states. In each of the three prison systems, three groups of prison personnel were studied, each with a different type and degree of involvement in the execution process. Members of the first group, the execution team, perform key roles in the execution itself. They are under the most pressure to justify the morality of their actions to themselves. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2019

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s vault: diffusion of responsibility through role division parallels how policy implementers rationalize harmful Islamophobic measures as just following a sub-task.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2019