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1 online resource (187 pages) |
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Historical guides to controversial issues in America, 1541-0021 |
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Historical guides to controversial issues in America.
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| Contents |
Introduction : describing the problem -- Torture and its origins -- Prison abuse in the U.S. pre-civil rights era -- The Central Intelligence Agency and torture -- Domestic prison abuse today -- Abuse in Guantanamo Bay, Afghanistan, and Iraq -- Summing up the torture debate -- Timeline of significant events in the history of torture and prisoner abuse |
| Summary |
Revelations about U.S. torture and prisoner abuse in blatant violation of the long-established and universally recognized Geneva Conventions have horrified most Americans. Nevertheless, it has been argued that the high stakes of the War on Terror have made the protections offered by the Conventions obsolete, or that the abuses are the work of a few rogue soldiers and officers. This book reaches past the headlines into the historical record to document POW torture and also domestic prisoner abuse dating well back in our history as well as government and military knowledge of and collusion in su |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-179) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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Torture -- United States
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Political prisoners -- Abuse of -- United States
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Political prisoners -- Abuse of
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Torture
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Politischer Gefangener
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Folter
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Misshandlung
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United States
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USA
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2008012634 |
| ISBN |
0313342938 |
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9780313342936 |
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1282340905 |
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9781282340909 |
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9786612340901 |
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6612340908 |
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