Counter-terrorism after 9/11 : justice, security, and ethics reconsidered
Título:
Counter-terrorism after 9/11 : justice, security, and ethics reconsidered
ISBN:
9781593459574
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PRODUCTION_INFO:
[Newark, N.J.] : LexisNexis, c2005.
Descripción física:
xii, 290 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Contenido:
Introduction -- Chapter 1. A criminal justice of terrorism -- Chapter 2. What is terrorism? Counter-terrorism? -- Chapter 3. World violence : the stage for 9/11 -- Chapter 4. Surveillance : toward panopticon -- Chapter 5. Daily life : preparing for terror -- Chapter 6. Middle-Eastern immigrants in the U.S. since 9/11 : detainment and seizure -- Chapter 7. Middle-Eastern immigrants in the U.S. since 9/11 : registration and surveillance -- Chapter 8. Guantanamo Bay and the treatment of foreign prisoners -- Chapter 9. Reflections on the war on terror : critiques and ethics -- Conclusion. Imagining terrorism, governing a free society -- Bibliography -- Author index -- Subject index.
Síntesis:
This book provides the reader with a sense of the breadth of government activity, its nature, and the surrounding controversies, by looking at the many different facets of the war on terrorism. Terrorism and counter-terrorism are defined, and the following topics are discussed, in the context of counter-terrorism, post-9/11: surveillance; preparation for terror; detainment and seizure, and registration and surveillance, of Middle-Eastern immigrants in the United States since 9/11; Guantanamo Bay and the treatment of foreign prisoners; critical and ethical assessments of the War on Terror; and considerations of governing a free society.
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