John W. Schiemann (Fairle Associate Professor of Political Science

Does Torture Work?

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Is interrogational torture effective? What do we mean by "effective"? How brutal can torture get and be considered justifiable? In this book, John 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 247mm x 172mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 572g
• ISBN-13: 9780190262365
• ISBN-10: 0190262362
• Artikelnr.: 42791627

Autorenporträt

John W. Schiemann is Associate Professor of Political Science at Fairleigh Dickinson University.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1 Interrogating Torture
2 Dangerous Torment
3 Benchmarking Interrogational Torture
4 A Quixotic Model of Interrogational Torture
5 A Realistic Model of Interrogational Torture
6 A Brutal Logic
7 A Matter of Calculation
8 Surprise Torture
9 Ambiguous Information and False Confirmation
10 Valuable Information, Selective Torture
11 Torturing Innocents, Resisting Torture
12 Torture's Garden
13 Torture's Confession
Postscript
Appendices
A The RIT Model
B Comparative Statics Analysis
C Observations and Propositions
Notes
References