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Does torture work? / John W. Schiemann.
LIBRA HV8593 .S345 2016
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schiemann, John W., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Torture.
- Questioning.
- Military interrogation.
- Terrorism--Prevention.
- Terrorism.
- Crime prevention.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 315 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]
- Contents:
- Interrogating torture
- Dangerous torment
- Benchmarking interrogational torture
- A quixotic model of interrogational torture
- A realistic model of interrogational torture
- A brutal logic
- A matter of calculation
- Surprise torture
- Ambiguous information and false confirmation
- Valuable information, selective torture
- Torturing innocents, resisting torture
- Torture's garden
- Torture's confession.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780190262365
- 0190262362
- OCLC:
- 908311191
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