The United States and Torture: Interrogation, Incarceration, and Abuse

by Idrian Resnick

Book Overview

Waterboarding. Sleep deprivation. Sensory manipulation. Stress positions. Over the last several years, these and other methods of torture have become garden variety words for practically anyone who reads about current events in a newspaper or blog. We know exactly what they are, how to administer them, and, disturbingly, that they were secretly authorized by the Bush Administration in its efforts to extract information from people detained in its...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814717322
• ISBN13: 9780814717325
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.2"