Figuring the prison: Prerequisites of torture at Abu Ghraib1

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Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1005-1022

  Sexton, Jared ^a   Lee, Elizabeth ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SLAVE; WAR;

ASIA; EURASIA; IRAQ; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 33751045714     PISSN: 00664812     EISSN: 14678330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8330.2006.00490.x     Document Type: Article

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