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KRIM2950/4950

Literature (740p)

1 Torture and its moral status (206p)

Ginbar, Yuval (2008). Part II from Why not torture terrorists? Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 95 – 164 (70p).

Kanstroom, Daniel (2008) "On Waterboarding (19p)

Luban, David (2005). Liberalism, Torture, and the Ticking Bomb , in Virginia Law Review, vol. 91, issue 6 (38p)

Sussman, David (2005). What`s wrong with torture? , in Philosophy & Public Affairs 33, no. 1 (33p)

2 Torture in the history of warfare, criminal justice and the social sciences (373p)

Blass, Thomas (2007). Unsupported allegations about a link between Milgram and the CIA: tortured reasoning in A Question of Torture , in Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, vol. 43(2) (5p)

Brown, Richard E. (2007). Alfred McCoy, Hebb, the CIA and Torture , in Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, vol. 43(2) (9p)

Langbein, John (2006). Torture and the Law of Proof: Europe and England in the Ancien Regime. Chicago: University of Chicago Press (240p)

McCoy, Alfred (2006). Chapters 1, 2 and 3 from A Question of Torture. New York: Metropolitan Books, pp. 5 – 107 (102p)

McCoy, Alfred (2007). Science in Dachau`s Shadow , in Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, vol. 43(4) (17p)

3 Torture, ”lawfare” and rights (107p)

Bruff, Harold H. (2009). Chapter 6 (pp. 115 – 137), 9 (pp. 199 – 212), 11 - 13 (pp. 226 – 298) from Bad Advice. Bush`s Lawyers in the War against Terror. University Press of Kansas (107p).

4 Torture and Popular Culture (100p)

Halvorsen, Vidar (2009). Catastrophic Moral Horror , in Technologies of Insecurity, London: Routledge (18p)

Mayer, Jane (2007). Whatever it takes, in The New Yorker, February 19 (14p)

Yin, Tung (2008). Jack Bauer Syndrome: Hollywood`s Depiction of National Security Law , in Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal, Vol. 17, Issue 2 (22p)

Ip, John (2009). Two Narratives of Torture , in Northwestern Journal of International Human Rights, vol. 7, issue 1 (46p)

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