Does torture work?
Is interrogational torture effective? What do we mean by 'effective'? How brutal can torture get and still be considered justifiable? In this book, John W. Schiemann adopts game theory in an attempt to answer these questions, walking the reader through the logic of interrogational torture...
| Main Author: | Schiemann, John W., |
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| Other Authors: | Oxford Scholarship Online. |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Oxford University Press,
2015.
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white) |
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| Summary: |
Is interrogational torture effective? What do we mean by 'effective'? How brutal can torture get and still be considered justifiable? In this book, John W. Schiemann adopts game theory in an attempt to answer these questions, walking the reader through the logic of interrogational torture - and finding that it is far more brutal than proponents believe. |
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| Item Description: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. Is interrogational torture effective? What do we mean by 'effective'? How brutal can torture get and still be considered justifiable? In this book, John W. Schiemann adopts game theory in an attempt to answer these questions, walking the reader through the logic of interrogational torture - and finding that it is far more brutal than proponents believe. |
| Physical Description: |
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white) |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780190262396 |