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Annotated Bibliography On Torture

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Annotated Bibliography-“How effective is torture in obtaining information?”
“Brown Note” Myth Busters. Discovery channel. Artarmon 16 Feb. 2005. Television. In this episode they test one way of torture. It was more based on mental resistance as it didn’t inflict physical pain. It shows that one mental health has a lot to do with how effective torture is. Somebody who is used to stress should be able to resist longer than somebody who isn’t.
Dominguez, Trace. “Does torture Work? Ask the CIA.” Discovery.com. Discovery news. Jul 3, 2012. Web. 08 Feb. 2016. In this report the author explain that many CIA agents believe that physical torture is not as effective as psychological torture. For example, leaving them naked in front of other people will …show more content…

"Beyond Waterboarding: The Science Of Interrogation." New Scientist 205.2750 (2010): 40-43. Academic Search Complete. Web. 10 Feb. 2016. In this article the author asks the question as to whether torture is a viable source in getting information. Since there is other moral ways of getting information. Some of these methods have shown to be more efficient. They also leave the victim’s mind intact.
Janoff-Bulman, Ronnie. "Erroneous Assumptions: Popular Belief in the Effectiveness of Torture Interrogation." Peace & Conflict 13.4 (2007): 429-435. Academic Search Complete. Web. 14 Feb. 2016. As this article mentions many people do believe that torture works as nobody could resist the physical and mental torture people are put through. In reality most successful cases have been done by psychology experts using other methods. They used human knowledge and applied it to the interrogation.
Moskalenko, Sophia. "Great Minds Think Alike: Psychology Of An Effective Interrogation." Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict 4.1 (2011): 21-32. Academic Search Complete. Web. 10 Feb. 2016. In this article the author explains that there is not many studies about the real efficiency on torture. This is due to people seeing it as an immoral action. Many people still decide that it is the best way to get …show more content…

Kelly, and Jeaneé C. Miller. "The Who, What, and Why of Human Intelligence Gathering: Self-Reported Measures of Interrogation Methods." Applied Cognitive Psychology 28.6 (2014): 817-828. Academic Search Complete. Web. 05 Feb. 2016. In this article research showed that using relationship building techniques instead of physical or mental abuse had better results in obtaining information. When people are being tortured, they feel even if they tell them they will still suffer. In contrast, people who don’t get tortured are more willing to cooperate. In the end showing a friendly manner wins people over.
Schiemann, John W. "Interrogational Torture: Or How Good Guys Get Bad Information With Ugly Methods." Political Research Quarterly 65.1 (2012): 3-19. Academic Search Complete. Web. 08 Feb. 2016. This source explains that torture is actually one of the last methods used when they are interrogating someone since many know that it has a very low success rate. If the person is not willing to cooperate, they go down a list. Many people thought to use the top methods as they are not as immoral. Getting to the end of the list thought means they have nothing else to make the person talk which is why they use

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After finding some torture tactics, it helped me research about the negative effects of torture. In his article, “Torture is a Crime”, Curt Goering listed the negative effects of torture. He argues that torture is illegal, ineffective, immoral and makes those around us unsafe. Curt uses ethos in his piece to back up his main argument. For example, he mentions that in 1984, the UN adopted the Convention against torture and it was ratified by the U.S. Senate in 1990.

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Some of the psychological methods included blackmailing, exploitation of phobias; e.g., mock execution, leaving suspects in a room full of spiders, interrogations that lasted for an unreasonable

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Applebaum has plenty of evidence to back up her claim that physical torture is not effective, and there are many other ways to obtain information. While the fear-encouraging and questioning elements are potent to many who are afraid of terror committed against them, but when the overwhelming sentiment of Levin’s argument is being compared to the logic and ethical points of Applebaum it is clear to see the superiority of her argument. Although Levin would advocate for physical torture in extreme situations, one must expect extreme consequences. Physical torture is rarely effective, violates rights, and damages a whole nation’s credibility. This is why physical torture should not be

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However openly allowing torture in any way will normalize its use. While Dershowitz’s proposal for warranted torture may seem appropriate in the case of the ticking bomb terrorist, the proposal is undermined by many moral and legal issues. It is easier for government officials to justify using torture in such extreme cases, but the reasons for not using torture outweigh its justifications. Dershowitz’s suggestion assumes that under a system of torture warrants that officials will refrain from torture if the warrant is rejected. There is no way to regulate interrogators and it is unlikely that a warrant will prevent interrogators from breaking the rules.

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Cia torture Imagine helping your country out of debt, or helping innocent people and save them from years and years of trauma. The history of torture goes all the back to before Christ was born, and yet people still use it to this day like the United States, China, North Korea, and Mexico. From country to country people torture other humans for information and services. The definition is the same worldwide which means to inflict severe pain on another human to force them to say something or provide a service.

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Although it was preformed in secret, torture is an aspect of history that has been occurring for decades. When an individual is tortured it is a method of inflicting pain onto someone in order to cause extreme suffering. Individuals who are being tortured are being led to a breaking point where they no longer have their dignity and must surrender or give in to the torturer in order for the pain to stop. Torturing is not something that is not used carelessly in most cases and is mainly utilized as a means to gain information. Punishment, on the other hand, is a method of deterrence from committing a crime or activity again and used as a way to rehabilitate individuals to allow them to change their ways for the better rather than an “eye for

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Since the 911 attack in New York, there have been serval reports state the CIA carried enhanced interrogation to torture suspect in black sites. For example, President Obama, as commander in chief, publicly admitted in August 2009 “we tortured some folks”. Because torture can be used as a method to extract information, a BBC survey of 27,000 people in 2006 shows one out of three people considered a degree of torture acceptable if it saved lives. The rest of the paper will discuss the moral justifiability of torture under two ethnical traditions — moral skepticism and consequentialism, along with a practical approach to determine whether the CIA should be condoned to use torture toward terrorists. Moral skepticism includes two variants — amoralism

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There are environments in the world such as the Middle East where sometimes extreme measures are called for to prevent extreme consequences. With all this said, there should also be guidelines in order to to keep this method in check and so that only qualified individuals with clearance are allowed to carry out such interrogation methods. Therefore torture should be allowed and only allowed when the subject refuses to answer questions that follow the Geneva Convention’s guidelines which are defined as a,”series of treaties signed (1864–1949) in Geneva, Switzerland, providing for humane treatment of

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Another example that torture is ineffective is one report of NBC talking about the CIA using torture for what happened on September 11, 2001. “The harsh interrogation techniques used by the CIA in the years after Sept. 11 were essentially useless and far more brutal than the spy agency told Congress and the public, according to a long-awaited Senator John McClain report released

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Torture does work sometimes but most of the time it only angers the other person gives them false information which will waste billions of dollars, human life, and time that could be used to help save lives. Cia torture is a useless tactic because it provides useless information, it is expensive and is inhumane. We the people or the United states spend way to much money on Cia torture. Quartz media has found evidence that, The united states spends 380 million dollars a year just for cia torture that cover the black sites the people the food the equipment and everything else they need. Quartz Media.

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Mark Mazzetti a writer for The New York Times states, “The torture of prisoners at times was so extreme that some C.I.A. personnel tried to put a halt to the techniques, but were told by senior agency officials to continue the interrogation sessions.” The interrogation tactics were done but the results weren’t good. The assumed terrorists gave up little information and the C.I.A. took major scrutiny for what they had been doing. Let it be known this all began to take place after the terrorist attack known as 9/11. An event that is still talked about today because no one expected

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There has always been torture since the beginning of human civilization. Torture can be conducted for various reasons or for no reason at all. It can be conducted to extract information or to punish someone for what they have been accused of. It can also be done just for the enjoyment of doing it. For all of these reasons, there also are different methods that can be done.

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There is no real reason why we use torture to get answers, we just use it as a game. For years people have been thinking torture is good and that it can help benefit our economy

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