Aggressive Interrogation and Retributive Justice: A Proposed Psychological Model
IDEOLOGY, PSYCHOLOGY, AND LAW, pp. 574-604, Jon Hanson, ed., Oxford University Press, 2012
Posted: 9 Jul 2012
Date Written: 2012
Abstract
This chapter describes a program of experimental research on the cognitive mechanism underlying public support for the government’s use of aggressive interrogation, with an emphasis on the role of moral judgment and retributive motives.
Keywords: interrogation, torture, retributive justice, moral judgment
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