Syllabus/achievement requirements

KRIM2950/4950

Literature (700p)


1 Torture and its moral status (371p)

Farrell, Michelle (2013). “The ticking bomb scenario: origins, usages, and the contemporary discourse”, in The Prohibition of Torture in Exceptional Circumstances. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (65p) (available as pdf)

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

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

Wisnewski, Jeremy (2010): Understanding Torture. Edinburgh: Edinburg University Press (235s) (available as a paperback)


2 Torture in the history of warfare, criminal justice and the social

sciences (133p)

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) (available as pdf)

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

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

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


3 Torture, ”lawfare” and rights (121p)

Farrell, Michelle (2013). “Legal, extra-legal or illegal? The academic debate on the use of torture in exceptional circumstances”, in The Prohibition of Torture in Exceptional Circumstances. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (28p) (available as pdf)

Graver, Hans Petter (2014): “Judicial Acceptance of Oppression”, in Judges against Justice. Heidelberg: Springer (37p) (available as pdf)

Luban, David (2014). “The torture lawyers of Washington”, in Torture, Power, and Law. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (56p) (available as pdf)


4 Torture and Popular Culture (75p)

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

Hasian Jr., Marouf (2013). “Zero Dark Thirty and the Critical Challenges Posed by Populist Postfeminism During the Global War on Terrorism”, in Journal of Communication Inquiry 37(4) (22p) (available as pdf)

Joyce,Daniel/Simm, Gabrielle (2014). “Zero Dark Thirty: International Law, Torture and Representation”, ESIL Conference Paper Series Vol. 4 No 12 (13p) (available as pdf)

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

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