@article{433543,
      note = {Description based on print version record.},
      author = {Carey, Henry F.,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/433543},
      title = {Reaping what you sow a comparative examination of torture  reform in the United States, France, Argentina, and Israel  / [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {Praeger,},
      abstract = {This book presents a cost-benefit analysis of torture,  daring to ask if the use of torture is ever justified or  always ill-advised. While the use of torture is variously  presented either as an aberrant American weapon unleashed  in the aftermath of the terror attacks of September 11 or  as a necessary tool in the War on Terror, torture has a  long history across cultures. Yet, the debate over the  morality, and the legality, of the brutal practice  flourishes. This volume presents a new angle in the study  of this controversial practice, approaching the issue of  torture from a cost-benefit analysis for the practicing  nation, rather than from a sensationalist, emotive vantage  point. Adopting a transnational approach, the author  examines the use of torture by the French in Algeria, the  Argentines within their own borders, the Israelis in the  Middle East, and the Americans in Guantanamo and Abu  Ghraib. In attempting to define torture, he asks: Is the  information gained through torture worth the potential  damage? What is the harm (or benefit) to the state once the  torture becomes known? What are the political and strategic  ramifications? Does torture help win wars? Can the use of  torture bring about any lasting or beneficial reforms?  These are daring questions seldom pondered. In asking them,  this book will help to foster a discussion that is long  overdue.},
      recid = {433543},
      pages = {1 online resource (xxi, 339 p.)},
      address = {Santa Barbara, Calif. :},
      year = {2012},
}