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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH Patrick Armshaw graduated from New College of Florida with a Bachelor's degree in Literature and Theater in 2001, and spent the next three years as a professional actor. He entered the Florida State University doctoral program in Political Science in 2004. He received his Master's degree in 2006, and began preliminary work on this dissertation the following year. His research interests include formal modeling, political economy, and human rights. 162
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THE FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEG
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This work is dedicated to my wife,
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TABLE OF CONTENTS ABSTRACT vii 1. T
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ABSTRACT In the aftermath of the Se
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judged by their effects. The deonto
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etter than chance on average, no ma
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from fiction, and also in the time
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the cases differ in how well inform
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characterization by method. Torture
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gather such evidence was strong, to
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ineffective. Something must prevent
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The description which it would be n
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powerful themselves. 21 While histo
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known by the misnomer 'torture-ligh
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substitute for intelligence gatheri
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This lack of good data on torture t
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found that the procedure can cause
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captive who has faced torture, and
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state cannot credibly commit to pla
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incentive not to present as favorab
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units, those engaged in the applica
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of causal mechanisms in a very dire
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the threats they face are real, whe
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3.1. Introduction. CHAPTER 3 THE WI
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discovered by Sir Thomas Newton and
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two, and the execution of the convi
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years preceding the outbreak at Sal
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these women - non-Church members, p
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Hubbard) and four grown and married
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innocent, and recalled that when he
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crowd was deeply and troublingly mo
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it was precisely in these terms tha
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came to an end. Misogyny was all to
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only the witch-trials that brought
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partners in their own (apparent) de
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possibility would be to question th
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John Bridges (whose own wife and da
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she again broke down and named seve
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forcing the already convicted to re
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We can thus see Tituba's confession
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Samuell Parris. 70 The strongest ev
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order to purge political dissidents
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torture as a failure based on this
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torture - the state will apply it e
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time, the government in Paris was c
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for two reasons - first, because Me
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The Soummam conference in the Summe
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one of the primary justifications f
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DOP in particular is instructive fo
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us stops in the city center. These
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one that would turn the dangers of
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dismantling of the ZAA organization
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found in the literature: the revela
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In fact, the use of torture did hav
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e.g.), by March (when the DPU had b
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Paul Teitgen appears to have been c
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the French public. 95 Secondly, the
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conditions theoretically necessary
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