Skip to main content alibris logo

Why Torture Doesn't Work: The Neuroscience of Interrogation

by

Write The First Customer Review
Why Torture Doesn't Work: The Neuroscience of Interrogation - O'Mara, Shane
Filter Results
Shipping
Item Condition
Seller Rating
Other Options
Change Currency

Besides being cruel and inhumane, torture does not work the way torturers assume it does. As Shane O'Mara's account of the neuroscience of suffering reveals, extreme stress creates profound problems for memory, mood, and thinking, and sufferers predictably produce information that is deeply unreliable, or even counterproductive and dangerous.

loading
Why Torture Doesn't Work: The Neuroscience of Interrogation 2015, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA; London

ISBN-13: 9780674743908

Hardcover