Constitutional limits on coercive interrogation / Amos N. Guiora.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Guiora, Amos N., 1957-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Police questioning--United States--History.

Police questioning.

Criminal investigation--United States.

Criminal investigation.

Due process of law--United States.

Due process of law.

Military interrogation--United States.

Military interrogation.

Torture (International law).

Detention of persons--United States.

Detention of persons.

Prisoners of war--Legal status, laws, etc--United States.

Prisoners of war.

Terrorism--Prevention--Law and legislation--United States.

Terrorism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (187 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford University Press 2008

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Amos Guiora offers a theoretical analysis and a practical application of coercive interrogation and, in doing so, suggests delevoping and implementing a hybrid paradigm based on criminal law, the Geneva Convention and the Israeli model of trial as the most relevant judicial regime.

Contents:

Introducing the hybrid paradigm and the historical analogy

Application of the hybrid paradigm

Interrogations in the history of American criminal law : adding historical perspective from an examination of African American interrogations in the deep South

Interrogation standards of the fifth and fourteenth Amendments applied to both citizens and noncitizens

Coercive interrogation, threats, and cumulative mistreatment

Torture

Interrogation methods and the eighth Amendment

International law pertaining to torture and interrogation.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-045084-3

0-19-986722-4

1-282-73098-3

9786612730986

0-19-971277-8

OCLC:

413193992