Dehumanization Is Not An Option: An Inquiry Into The Exercise Of Authority Against Perceived Wrongdoers - Softcover

Sherrer, Hans

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1434847640 ISBN 13: 9781434847645

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2008

Synopsis

Reports about Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay, Bagram Air Base, secret CIA prisons, and other detention facilities run by the U.S. outside the country, have raised concerns about the treatment of prisoners in those facilities. Yet their treatment is different only by degree from the treatment of people jailed and imprisoned in the U.S. and other countries. And there is certainly nothing new about the physical and psychological mistreatment of imprisoned people. Brutalization of suspected wrongdoers was elevated to an art form during the middle ages in Europe, and there are credible stories of atrocious treatment of prisoners going back thousands of years. Awareness that the mistreatment of people considered by society to be wrongdoers is pervasive and not the consequence of a few "bad apples," is a necessary first step to exploring options to break that millenium long cycle of violence. Dehumanization Is Not An Option contributes to increasing that awareness.

About this title

About the Author

Hans Sherrer is publisher of Justice:Denied - the magazine for the wrongly convicted, and he has written on many on topics related to social and legal issues in the United States and other countries.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1434847640
• ISBN 13: 9781434847645
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 100