Harsh Justice: Criminal Punishment and the Widening Divide Between America and Europe.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

Michigan Law Review, May, 2005 by Demleitner, Nora V.

HARSH JUSTICE: CRIMINAL PUNISHMENT AND THE WIDENING DIVIDE BETWEEN AMERICA AND EUROPE. By James Q. Whitman. New York: Oxford University Press. 2003. Pp. viii, 311. $39.95.

The spring 2004 release of the grusome pictures of sexual humiliation and torture at Abu Ghraib prison outside of Baghdad revealed how some U.S. troops, intelligence officers, and private contractors treated Iraqi prisoners taken during and after the war. High-ranking government officials may have condoned, if not encouraged, the abuses. Only reluctantly have they agreed to extend protections customarily accorded civilians and military fighters during a war to individuals detained in Iraq and Afghanistan. (1)

As Congressional investigations appear to have stalled, military inquiries...

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