How to Justify Torture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook How to Justify Torture write by Alex Adams. This book was released on 2019-09-10. How to Justify Torture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From Batman Begins to Tom Clancy, How to Justify Torture shows how contemporary culture creates simplified narratives about good guy torturers and bad guy victims, how dangerous this is politically, and what we can do to challenge it. If there was a bomb hidden somewhere in a major city, and you had the person responsible in your custody, would you torture them to get the information needed to stop the bomb exploding, preventing a devastating terrorist attack and saving thousands of lives? This is the ticking bomb scenario -- a thought experiment designed to demonstrate that torture can be justified. In How to Justify Torture, cultural critic Alex Adams examines the ticking bomb scenario in-depth, looking at the ways it is presented in films, novels, and TV shows -- from Batman Begins and Dirty Harry to French military thrillers and home invasion narratives. By critiquing its argument step by step, this short, provocative book reminds us that, despite what the ticking bomb scenario will have us believe, torture can never be justified.
Torture and the Ticking Bomb
Torture and the Ticking Bomb - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Torture and the Ticking Bomb write by Bob Brecher. This book was released on 2017-04-24. Torture and the Ticking Bomb available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This timely and passionate book is the first to address itself to Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz’s controversial arguments for the limited use of interrogational torture and its legalisation. Argues that the respectability Dershowitz's arguments confer on the view that torture is a legitimate weapon in the war on terror needs urgently to be countered Takes on the advocates of torture on their own utilitarian grounds Timely and passionately written, in an accessible, jargon-free style Forms part of the provocative and timely Blackwell Public Philosophy series
The Torture Papers
The Torture Papers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Torture Papers write by Karen J. Greenberg. This book was released on 2005-01-03. The Torture Papers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Documents US Government attempts to justify torture techniques and coercive interrogation practices in ongoing hostilities.
Torture and Democracy
Torture and Democracy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Torture and Democracy write by Darius Rejali. This book was released on 2009-06-08. Torture and Democracy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 electrotorture in American inner cities, and from French and British colonial prison cells and the Spanish-American War to the fields of Vietnam, the wars of the Middle East, and the new democracies of Latin America and Europe. As Rejali traces the development and application of one torture technique after another in these settings, he reaches startling conclusions. As the twentieth century progressed, he argues, democracies not only tortured, but set the international pace for torture. Dictatorships may have tortured more, and more indiscriminately, but the United States, Britain, and France pioneered and exported techniques that have become the lingua franca of modern torture: methods that leave no marks. Under the watchful eyes of reporters and human rights activists, low-level authorities in the world's oldest democracies were the first to learn that to scar a victim was to advertise iniquity and invite scandal. Long before the CIA even existed, police and soldiers turned instead to "clean" techniques, such as torture by electricity, ice, water, noise, drugs, and stress positions. As democracy and human rights spread after World War II, so too did these methods. Rejali makes this troubling case in fluid, arresting prose and on the basis of unprecedented research--conducted in multiple languages and on several continents--begun years before most of us had ever heard of Osama bin Laden or Abu Ghraib. The author of a major study of Iranian torture, Rejali also tackles the controversial question of whether torture really works, answering the new apologists for torture point by point. A brave and disturbing book, this is the benchmark against which all future studies of modern torture will be measured.
Defusing the ticking bomb scenario : why we must say No to torture, always
Defusing the ticking bomb scenario : why we must say No to torture, always - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Defusing the ticking bomb scenario : why we must say No to torture, always write by Association pour la prévention de la torture (Genève). This book was released on 2007. Defusing the ticking bomb scenario : why we must say No to torture, always available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
