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The United States and torture : interrogation, incarceration, and abuse / edited by Marjorie Cohn.

Contributor(s): Publication details: New York : New York University, c2011.Description: xiv, 342 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780814717325 (cl : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 364.6/70973 22
LOC classification:
  • KF9430 .U55 2011
Contents:
Mind maze : the CIA's pursuit of psychological torture / Alfred McCoy -- Torture and human rights abuses at the school of Americas : WHINSEC / Bill Quigley -- U.S. foreign policy, deniability and the political "utility" of state terror : the case of El Salvador / Terry Karl -- Fundamental human rights and the coercive interrogation of terrorists in an extreme emergency / John W. Lango -- Torture, war, and the limits of liberal legality / Richard Falk -- Outsourcing torture : the secret history of America's "extraordinary rendition" program / Jane Mayer -- This is to whom it may concern : a GuantaÌnamo narrative / Marc D. Falkoff -- Psychologists, torture, and civil society : complicity, institutional failure, and the struggle for professional transformation / Stephen Soldz -- From GuantaÌnamo to Berlin : protecting human rights after 9/11 / Michael Ratner -- Mass torture in America : notes from the supermax prisons / Lance Tapley -- The law of torture and accountability of lawyers who sanction it / Jeanne Mirer -- Terrorists and torturers / Philippe Sands -- Criminal responsibility of Bush administration officials with respect to unlawful interrogation tactics and the facilitating conduct of lawyers / Jordan Paust -- Torture, war, and presidential power : thoughts on the current constitutional crisis / Thomas Erlich Reifer.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks KF9430 .U55 2011 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001159416

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Mind maze : the CIA's pursuit of psychological torture / Alfred McCoy -- Torture and human rights abuses at the school of Americas : WHINSEC / Bill Quigley -- U.S. foreign policy, deniability and the political "utility" of state terror : the case of El Salvador / Terry Karl -- Fundamental human rights and the coercive interrogation of terrorists in an extreme emergency / John W. Lango -- Torture, war, and the limits of liberal legality / Richard Falk -- Outsourcing torture : the secret history of America's "extraordinary rendition" program / Jane Mayer -- This is to whom it may concern : a GuantaÌnamo narrative / Marc D. Falkoff -- Psychologists, torture, and civil society : complicity, institutional failure, and the struggle for professional transformation / Stephen Soldz -- From GuantaÌnamo to Berlin : protecting human rights after 9/11 / Michael Ratner -- Mass torture in America : notes from the supermax prisons / Lance Tapley -- The law of torture and accountability of lawyers who sanction it / Jeanne Mirer -- Terrorists and torturers / Philippe Sands -- Criminal responsibility of Bush administration officials with respect to unlawful interrogation tactics and the facilitating conduct of lawyers / Jordan Paust -- Torture, war, and presidential power : thoughts on the current constitutional crisis / Thomas Erlich Reifer.

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