Jennifer Brown reviews some of the psychological evidence challenging the assumption that torture works as an interrogation technique. In light of Donald Trump’s recent comments on the use of torture, she suggests that the moral case is more effective in persuading people to oppose torture than pragmatic arguments
Almost every serious commentator to address the moral and legal question of torture has taken for gr...
The United States has historically been regarded as a moral leader opening the pathway for human rig...
This paper looks at the acceptability of torture as a national security policy to combat terrorism. ...
I develop a framework to account for torture, which I argue should be understood with reference to i...
ABSTRACT: Following the September 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, much support for tort...
This Article draws upon recent social psychological research to demonstrate the psychological diffic...
The War on Terror has generated fierce debate on torture as a means of thwarting terrorist threats....
This article describes issues needing to be resolved before policies on the use of enhanced interrog...
In this Article, I argue that the obstacles to having a serious conversation about torture are exace...
This Article is a contribution to the torture debate. It argues that the abusive interrogation tacti...
The so-called ticking bomb is invoked by philosophers and lawyers trying to justify, on behalf of th...
In Part I of this Article, we first consider some of the strengths and weaknesses of the partially a...
Liberal democracies who perpetrate torture represent an apparent paradox: a flagrant violation of hu...
Beginning in 2002, lawyers for the Bush Administration began producing the now infamous legal memora...
May torture ever be morally or legally permissible? In Why Terrorism Works, Professor Alan Dershowit...
Almost every serious commentator to address the moral and legal question of torture has taken for gr...
The United States has historically been regarded as a moral leader opening the pathway for human rig...
This paper looks at the acceptability of torture as a national security policy to combat terrorism. ...
I develop a framework to account for torture, which I argue should be understood with reference to i...
ABSTRACT: Following the September 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, much support for tort...
This Article draws upon recent social psychological research to demonstrate the psychological diffic...
The War on Terror has generated fierce debate on torture as a means of thwarting terrorist threats....
This article describes issues needing to be resolved before policies on the use of enhanced interrog...
In this Article, I argue that the obstacles to having a serious conversation about torture are exace...
This Article is a contribution to the torture debate. It argues that the abusive interrogation tacti...
The so-called ticking bomb is invoked by philosophers and lawyers trying to justify, on behalf of th...
In Part I of this Article, we first consider some of the strengths and weaknesses of the partially a...
Liberal democracies who perpetrate torture represent an apparent paradox: a flagrant violation of hu...
Beginning in 2002, lawyers for the Bush Administration began producing the now infamous legal memora...
May torture ever be morally or legally permissible? In Why Terrorism Works, Professor Alan Dershowit...
Almost every serious commentator to address the moral and legal question of torture has taken for gr...
The United States has historically been regarded as a moral leader opening the pathway for human rig...
This paper looks at the acceptability of torture as a national security policy to combat terrorism. ...