Description: Why do people persist in supporting torture--and can they be persuaded to change their minds? Erin M. Kearns and Joseph K. Young draw upon a novel series of group experiments to understand how and why the average citizen might come to support the use of torture techniques.
Brief description: Erin M. Kearns (PhD, Criminology and Public Policy, American University) is Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Alabama. She has served as a consultant for the Police Foundation and the Department of Justice's Office of Community Oriented Policing and was a consulting researcher on the DOJ's 2015 Presidential Task Force on 21st Century Policing and their Comprehensive Law Enforcement Review. Her work has been featured in The Washington Post, NPR, Vox, and CNN, as well as in journals such as Studies in Conflict & Terrorism.
Review Quotes: Kearns and Young have provided a masterful book which is thought-provoking, richly detailed, and speaks to important policy questions, not to mention pressing ethical debates about the rights of detainees in the war on terrorism.-- "H-Diplo"