The Importance Of Coercive Interrogation

contravene laws, Jackson et al. 2011). For instance, society might regard various laws that govern them as legitimate when they perceive the legal and justice system and its authorities as promoting suitable standards of conduct, (Jackson et al. 2011). Consequently, such legitimacy pertains to the perception that various enacted laws are supposed to be complied with not as a result of external endorsement, rather because they are the correct behavioral standards, (Jackson et al. 2011). Society may confer legitimacy on law enforcers not merely due to the law enforcers’ adherence to standards of good behavior, but rather because it perceives the law enforcers as representing certain normative ethical frameworks, (Hough et al, 2010). This is particularly

Deontological theorists argue that coercive interrogation should be unequivocally impermissible as it entails out-right violation of human dignity, (Arrigo, 2004). According to Posner & Vermeule (2005), the idea of coercive interrogation is paradoxical in that the law enforcers maintain its legality while simultaneously using it under the guise of preventing dangerous criminal suspects from harming other people in the society. Posner & Vermuele (2005) however denounce the deontological view against coercive interrogation by arguing that it is sometimes permissible and necessary although law enforcers need not deny that coercive interrogation is inherently a severe moral evil. Their denunciation is informed by the fact an assertion that sometimes even grave evils are necessary and justified due to the inescapability of tragic choices, although a violation of rights. Posner & Vermuele (2005) conclude that although coercive interrogation is a severe ethical and moral evil that should not be out-rightly permissible, but rather one that should be subjected to rules-with-exceptions based complex regulatory frameworks. Such frameworks should permit the infliction of human harms only in tightly cabined situations with an immunity system that obliges law enforcers to follow stipulated rules in good