Does torture work? /
John W. Schiemann.
- 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Is interrogational torture effective? What do we mean by 'effective'? How brutal can torture get and still be considered justifiable? In this book, John W. Schiemann adopts game theory in an attempt to answer these questions, walking the reader through the logic of interrogational torture - and finding that it is far more brutal than proponents believe.
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Torture. Military interrogation. Terrorism--Prevention. Crime prevention.