TY - BOOK AU - Lokaneeta,Jinee ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - Transnational torture: law, violence, and state power in the United States and India AV - K5410.T6 L65 2011 U1 - 345.025 23 PY - 2011/// CY - New York PB - New York University Press KW - Torture KW - United States KW - India KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction : do the ghosts of Leviathan linger on? Law, violence, and torture in liberal democracies -- Law's struggle with violence : ambivalence in the "routine" : jurisprudence of interrogations in the United States -- "Being helplessly civilized leaves us at the mercy of the beast" : post-9/11 discourses on torture in the United States -- Torture in the TV show 24 : circulation of meanings -- Jurisprudence on torture and interrogations in India -- Contemporary states of exception : extraordinary laws and interrogation in India -- Conclusion : unraveling the exception : torture in liberal democracies; Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=865778 ER -