Rendition to Torture

by Alan W. Clarke

Universally condemned and everywhere illegal, torture goes on in democracies as well as in dictatorships. Nonetheless, many Americans were surprised following the attacks of 9/11 at how easily the United States embraced torture as well as the supposedly lesser evil of cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment. Nothing seemed extreme when it came to questioning real and imagined terrorists. Extraordinary rendition--sending people captured in the "war...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813552761
• ISBN13: 9780813552767
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary