Reaping what you sow : a comparative examination of torture reform in the United States, France, Argentina, and Israel /

This book presents a cost-benefit analysis of torture, daring to ask if the use of torture is ever justified or always ill-advised. While the use of torture is variously presented either as an aberrant American weapon unleashed in the aftermath of the terror attacks of September 11 or as a necessary...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Carey, Henry F., 1953-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger, ©2012.
Series:PSI reports (Westport, Conn.)
Subjects:
Torture > Government policy.
Torture > United States.
Torture > France.
Torture > Argentina.
Torture > Israel.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Penology.
Torture
Torture > Government policy
Argentina
France
Israel
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Torture: the goal of accountability and the world of impunity
  • United States: de jure reform with torture lite and rendition
  • Israel: soft compliance with judicial oversight of torture-lite
  • France: supranational supervision but limited memory battles and accountability
  • Argentina: the only case with prosecutions, reparations, and museums
  • Spanish inquisition or millennium bombing plot: the value of torture as actionable intelligence, confession, obedience, intimidation, or deterrence?
  • The politics of collective memory and torture reform
  • Conclusion: two sets of patterns in four states.

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