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12 Cards in this Set
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the Abu Ghraib Scandal
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prison in baghdad where american military soldiars torutured iraqi prisoners
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post 9-11
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legitmacy of state torture became a serioud debate, shocking and unanticipated, publiv vs. behind the scenes
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Abu Ghraib
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The bush administration condembed the actions as abusive and criminal, but not as torture.
-many people across the us political and or legal spectrum as well as internationally do consider it torture |
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Abu Ghraib
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raise the question :what is torture?
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Rationale for toture
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-official rationale is usually information, ticking time bomb hypothetical best known
-most experts dont think torture is a very efffective or reliable way to get information, especially accurate |
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goals of torture
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information, punishment, changing belief or allegiance, intimidation
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Senator Trent Lott
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defended the interrogation techniquest at Abu Ghraib- cant get information by witholding pancakes, dogs didn't hurt.
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Defense Secretary
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Donald Rumsfield
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Competing explanations for torture and abuses at Abu Ghraib
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-structualr, buas misinterpretation/confusion
-structural and wrong; external/hidden internal critics |
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Sheik Mohammed Bashir
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beleived it was the structualr and american way (american soldiers have total freidom)
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Who Tortures?
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-sadism
-authority, organizational culture, explicit instructions, implicit instructions, peer grou pressure, and dehumanization |
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Abu Ghraib and Criminal Justice Issues
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- both those who argue for abu ghraib as exceptional and structural recognize criminal nature of abuse
-rule of law, and what specific rules of law, at stake -problems in categorizing and defining crime; also related concern of reach of law - use of civilian prison personnel in abu ghraib - use of abusive practices in us corrections |
