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Torture is perhaps the most unequivocally banned practice in the world today. Yet recent photographs from Abu Ghraib substantiated claims that the United States and some of its allies are using methods of questioning relating to the war on terrorism that could be described as torture or, at the very...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Levinson, Sanford, 1941-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Colección:OUP E-Books.
Temas:
Torture > Moral and ethical aspects.
Human rights.
Political prisoners > Legal status, laws, etc.
Human Rights
Torture > Aspect moral.
Droits de l'homme (Droit international)
Prisonniers politiques > Droit.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
Human rights
Torture > Moral and ethical aspects
Martelen.
Ethische aspecten.
Torture
Ethics
Human rights violations
Political prisoners
Terrorism
Military interrogation
Police interrogation
Overseas item
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword : The tyranny of terror : is torture inevitable in our century and beyond? / Ariel Dorfman
  • Contemplating torture : an introduction / Sanford Levinson
  • Torture / Henry Shue
  • Political action : the problem of dirty hands / Michael Walzer
  • Reflection on the problem of "dirty hands" / Jean Bethke Elshtain
  • The legal history of torture / John H. Langbein
  • American interrogation : from torture to trickery / Jerome H. Skolnick
  • The mental state of torturers : Argentina's dirty war / Mark Osiel
  • Escalation and necessity : defining torture at home and abroad / John T. Parry
  • Judgment concerning the legality of the general security service's interrogation methods / Supreme Court of Israel
  • Can the war against terror justify the use of force in interrogations? Reflections in the light of the Israeli experience / Miriam Gur-Arye
  • The promise and limits of the international law of torture / Oona A. Hathaway
  • The European convention on human rights and its prohibition on torture / Fionnuala Ní Aoiláin
  • The prohibition on torture and the limits of the law / Oren Gross
  • Tortured reasoning / Alan Dershowitz
  • Five errors in the reasoning of Alan Dershowitz / Elaine Scarry
  • Torture, terrorism, and interrogation / Richard A. Posner
  • Loose professionalism, or why lawyers take the lead on torture / Richard H. Weisberg.

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