Title: The necessary evil of preventive detention in the war on terror
First published: 2008
Description: "This book explores the underlying rationales for preventive detention as a tool in this war on terror; analyzes the legal obstacles to creating a preventive detention regime; discusses how Israel and Britain have dealt with incapacitation and interrogation of terrorists; and compares several alternative ideas to the administration's enemy combatant policy under a methodology that looks at questions of lawfulness, the balance between liberty and security, and institutional efficiency. In the end, this book recommends using the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to monitor a narrow regime of preventive detention only to be used under certain prescribed circumstances where interrogation and/or incapacitation are the justifications.

This book is an essential reference for collections in American studies, political science, and national security studies."--Jacket.
Subjects: War on Terrorism, 2001-, Law and legislation, Detention of persons, Combatants and noncombatants (International law), Terrorism, Prevention, War on Terrorism, 2001-2009
Places: United States
LC classification: KF9430 .B48 2008