02792nam 2200601 a 450 991045412320332120200520144314.01-282-34090-597866123409010-313-34293-8(CKB)1000000000707291(EBL)617368(OCoLC)607693458(SSID)ssj0000311692(PQKBManifestationID)11260409(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000311692(PQKBWorkID)10347149(PQKB)10282559(MiAaPQ)EBC617368(Au-PeEL)EBL617368(CaPaEBR)ebr10362922(CaONFJC)MIL234090(EXLCZ)99100000000070729120080319d2008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe torture and prisoner abuse debate[electronic resource] /Laura L. FinleyWestport, Conn. Greenwood Press20081 online resource (198 p.)Historical guides to controversial issues in America,1541-0021Description based upon print version of record.0-313-34292-X Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-179) and index.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.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 suHistorical guides to controversial issues in America.TortureUnited StatesPolitical prisonersAbuse ofUnited StatesElectronic books.TorturePolitical prisonersAbuse of364.67Finley Laura L855823MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910454123203321The torture and prisoner abuse debate1952948UNINA