Rick Steves shares his favorite places to learn about the bleak black arts used to extract confessions and punish criminals.

Torture begins with the stories societies tell about danger, enemies and the supposed necessity of setting the law aside.

Why is torture wrong? It may seem like an obvious question, or even one beneath discussion. But it is now inescapably before us, with the introduction of the McCain Amendment banning all "cruel, ...

The case against the two men, who have been living in Austria since 2015, was one of the first that the country has brought ...

In the wake of the Senate report cataloging a whole lot of torture committed by the CIA, Dick Cheney has been reduced to arguing that torturing people — even innocent ones — is worth doing if you ...

Tqhe thing that is in Room 101 is the worst thing in the world," George Orwell wrote in 1984. It "varies from individual to individual. It may be burial alive, or death by fire, or by drowning, or by ...

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After the 9/11 attacks, the US government was willing to do anything to catch the perpetrators. "Anything" included subjecting detainees to simulated drowning, sleep deprivation, and fear-inducing ...

Your institution does not have access to this book on JSTOR. Try searching on JSTOR for other items related to this book. INTRODUCTION: What Impacts Public Perception of Torture in Counterterrorism?

People think it’s easy to come up with torture ideas. I wish! You can spend hours walking along a tranquil beach, or sitting in a meadow full of butterflies, and not come up with a single torture idea ...