Staff Sergeant Ivan Frederick testified that when at the Abu Ghraib Prison "I questioned some of the things that I saw….such as leaving inmates in their cells with no clothes or in female underpants—and the answer I got was ‘This is how military intelligence wants it done.'" The dynamics Frederick described best correspond with
a. Stanley Milgram's Obedience to Authority.
b. Howard Becker's master status of deviant.
c. Robert K. Merton's theory of structural strain.
d. Edward Sutherland's theory of differential association.
a
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