THEORY & PSYCHOLOGY 25(5) October 2015 Special Issue on Stanley Milgram co-edited by Augustine Brannigan, Ian Nicholason and Fran Cherry

• Introduction to the special issue: Unplugging the Milgram machine

                  Augustine Brannigan, Ian Nicholson and Frances Cherry

• Coverage of recent criticisms of Milgram’s obedience experiments in introductory social psychology textbooks

                  Richard A. Griggs and George I. Whitehead III

• Milgram’s shock experiments and the Nazi perpetrators: A contrarian perspective on the role of obedience pressures during the Holocaust

                  Allan Fenigstein

• Designing obedience in the lab: Milgram’s shock simulator and human factors engineering

                  Maya Oppenheimer

• Seeing is believing: The role of the film Obedience in shaping perceptions of Milgram’s Obedience to Authority experiments

                  Gina Perry

• The normalization of torment: Producing and managing anguish in Milgram’s “Obedience” laboratory

                  Ian Nicholson

• Obedience in perspective: Psychology and the Holocaust

                  George R. Mastroianni

• Acting otherwise: Resistance, agency, and subjectivities in Milgram’s studies of obedience

                  Ethan Hoffman, N. Reed Myerberg and Jill G. Morawski

Augustine Brannigan, The Sociology of Crime, a set of lectures prepared for Athabasca University (2015)

• Justice and The Rule of Law
• The Legal Elements of Crime
• Measuring Crime
• The Crime Drop and the Enterprise of Criminology
• Explaining Crime: The Two Different Traditions
• Realist Theories: Crime and Social Structure
• Relativistic Theories: Crime and Cultural Transmission Theories
• Thou Shalt Not Kill: Understanding ‘mere murder’
• Murder Extraordinaire
• Defining Policy Considerations