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Ill‐treatment and torture at Abu Ghraib prison: irrational policy implementation and administrative breakdown

The objective of this article is to make theoretical sense of the complex and difficult to comprehend abuses at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. While many theoretical perspectives may be useful to understand Abu Ghraib, this article uses traditional administrative theory. This perspective assumes a breakdown in proper administrative protocol led to Abu Ghraib abuses. Deviant outcomes emanated from illogical implementation of flawed policies at the highest levels of government, which resulted in the normalization of deviance within the prison. The article concludes that post‐Abu Ghraib documentation and investigations show that the Bush Administration played a direct role in the scandal.