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The torture and prisoner abuse debate / Laura L. Finley.
Van Pelt Library HV8599.U6 F56 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Finley, Laura L.
- Series:
- Historical guides to controversial issues in America 1541-0021
- Historical guides to controversial issues in America, 1541-0021
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Torture--United States.
- Torture.
- United States.
- Political prisoners--Abuse of--United States.
- Political prisoners.
- Political prisoners--Abuse of.
- Physical Description:
- 187 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2008.
- Contents:
- Introduction : describing the problem
- Torture and its origins
- Prison abuse in the U.S. pre-civil rights era
- The Central Intelligence Agency and torture
- Domestic prison abuse today
- Abuse in Guantanamo Bay, Afghanistan, and Iraq
- Summing up the torture debate
- Timeline of significant events in the history of torture and prisoner abuse.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [171]-179) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780313342929
- 031334292X
- OCLC:
- 193175565
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