Mainstreaming Torture
| Author | : Rebecca Gordon |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 227 |
| Release | : 2014 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9780199336432 |
| ISBN-13 | : 0199336431 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (32 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Mainstreaming Torture by : Rebecca Gordon
Download or read book Mainstreaming Torture written by Rebecca Gordon and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 reopened what many Americans had assumed was a settled ethical question: Is torture ever morally permissible? Rebecca Gordon argues that institutionalized state torture remains as wrong today as it was before those terrible attacks, and shows how U.S. practices during the ''war on terror'' are rooted in a history that includes support for torture regimes abroad and for the use of torture in the jails and prisons of this country.
