Support staff cope by humanizing inmates while executioners cope by dehumanizing them

Evidence

Although they are part of the execution team, they approach their work from an entirely different perspective, as one of the members explained: “I didn’t feel like I was a part of taking life. I was there for life, not death” (Osofsky et al., 2005). The more the members of the support team humanize their services, the more helpful they can be. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2023

Categorization

• XREF: Shows that selectivity, not just disengagement, is the mechanism - relevant to the vault’s claim that people actively recruit frames to rationalize policy.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2023