I recently watched a lecture by Philip Zimbardo (of Stanford prison experiment fame) about systems that creates such situations [1]. His example was the Abu Gra

I recently watched a lecture by Philip Zimbardo (of Stanford prison experiment fame) about systems that creates such situations [1]. His example was the Abu Graib. It's quite long, but there is also a shorter Ted talk on the same subject. [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xpsVlY3QQc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xpsVlY3QQc