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The story of cruel and unusual

Author: Colin Dayan
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2007.
Series: Boston review book.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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A searing indictment of the American penal system that finds the roots of the recent prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo in the steady dismantling of the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of  Read more...

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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Dayan, Joan, 1949-
Story of cruel and unusual.
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2007
(OCoLC)652427503
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Colin Dayan
ISBN: 9780262042390 0262042398
OCLC Number: 71350497
Description: xx, 100 p. ; 19 cm.
Contents: Trials of definition --
Codes of law, bodies of color --
Dead to rights --
Mental states --
The threshold of suffering --
Tools of terror --
Torture language --
A new legal regime? --
Giving flesh to history.
Series Title: Boston review book.
Other Titles: Story of cruel & unusual
Responsibility: Colin Dayan ; foreword by Jeremy Waldron.
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by WTYILL@KUK (WorldCat user on 2007-06-28)

Foreword ix
1. Trials of definition 3
2. Codes of law, bodies of color 9
3. Dead to rights 17
4. Mental states 27
5. The threshold of suffering 39
6. Tools of terror 51
7. Torture language 59
8. A new legal regime? 73
9. Giving flesh to history 87

Notes 93

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[Dayan] builds her argument around one basic principle: that in a society of laws, we frame cruelty in terms of intent. Thus, she writes, we always have a loophole; it's not what we do but what we Read more...

 
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