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Mainstreaming Torture: Ethical Approaches in the Post-9/11 United States

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Mainstreaming Torture: Ethical Approaches in the Post-9/11 United States - Gordon, Rebecca
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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.

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Mainstreaming Torture: Ethical Approaches in the Post-9/11 United States 2014, Oxford University Press, USA

ISBN-13: 9780199336432

Hardcover