The United States and torture : interrogation, incarceration, and abuse /
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| Imprint: | New York : New York University Press, c2011. |
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| Description: | xiv, 342 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8295728 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Introduction: An American Policy of Torture
- Part I. The History and Character of Torture
- 1. Mind Maze: The CIA's Pursuit of Psychological Torture
- 2. Torture and Human Rights Abuses at the School of Americas-WHINSEC
- 3. U.S. Foreign Policy, Deniability, and the Political "Utility" of State Terror: The Case of El Salvador
- 4. Fundamental Human Rights and the Coercive Interrogation of Terrorists in an Extreme Emergency
- 5. Torture, War, and the Limits of Liberal Legality
- Part II. Torture and Cruel Treatment of Prisoners in U.S. Custody
- 6. Outsourcing Torture: The Secret History of America's 'Extraordinary Rendition' Program
- 7. This Is To Whom It May Concern: A Guantánamo Narrative
- 8. Psychologists, Torture, and Civil Society: Complicity, Institutional Failure, and the Struggle for Professional Transformation
- 9. From Guantánamo to Berlin: Protecting Human Rights after 9/11
- 10. Mass Torture in America: Notes from the Supermax Prisons
- Part III. Accountability for Torture
- 11. The Law of Torture and Accountability of Lawyers Who Sanction It
- 12. Terrorists and Torturers
- 13. Criminal Responsibility of Bush Administration Officials with Respect to Unlawful Interrogation Tactics and the Facilitating Conduct of Lawyers
- 14. Torture, War, and Presidential Power: Thoughts on the Current Constitutional Crisis
- About the Contributors
- Index