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Does Torture Work?

John W. Schiemann

2016272 pagesabout 4–6 hours
2016
first published
  • 2016Oxford University Press, Incorporated · 272 pages · ENGISBN 9780190262365
  • 2018Oxford University Press, Incorporated · 336 pages · ENGISBN 9780190872816

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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