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"This is the most comprehensive, and most comprehensively chilling, study of modern torture yet written. Darius Rejali, one of the world's leading experts on torture, takes the reader from the late nineteenth century to the aftermath of Abu Ghraib, from slavery and the electric chair to el...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Rejali, Darius M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Woodstock : Princeton University Press, 2009, 2007.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Torture > Government policy.
Torture.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > American Government > Judicial Branch.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Penology.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Modern torture and its observers
  • Torture and democracy
  • Lights, heat, and sweat
  • Whips and water
  • Bathtubs
  • Shock
  • Magnetos
  • Currents
  • Singing the world electric
  • Prods, tasers, and stun guns
  • Stun city
  • Sticks and bones
  • Water, sleep, and spice
  • Stress and duress
  • Forced standing and other positions
  • Fists and exercises
  • Old and new restraints
  • Noise
  • Drugs and doctors
  • Supply and demand for clean torture
  • Does torture work?
  • What the apologists say
  • Why governments don't learn
  • The great age of torture in modern memory.

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