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Torture » Read Now
by Edward Peters. 291 pgs.

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...TORTURE TORTURE EXPANDED EDITION Edward Peters University of Pennsylvania Press...Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Peters, Edward. 1936- Torture Edward...
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Understanding Torture and Torturers, in Journal of Evolutionary Psychology » Read Now
by Journal of Evolutionary Psychology. 17 pgs.

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...Understanding torture and torturers. Introduction Humans have evolved to be able to engage...systematically attempting to hurt someone in an extreme fashion, i. e. torture?...
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The Politics of Pain: Torturers and Their Masters » Read Now
by Ronald D. Crelinsten, Alex P. Schmid. 195 pgs.

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...iii- -iv- The Politics of Pain Torturers and Their Masters EDITED BY Ronald...4 3 2 1 No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment...and...
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On Torture, or Cruel, Inhuman, and Degrading Treatment, in Social Research » Read Now
by Talal Asad. 29 pgs.

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...On Torture, or Cruel, Inhuman, and Degrading Treatment...Rights : "No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment...behavior that if not...
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Protecting Prisoners: The Standards of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture in Context » Read Now
by Malcolm D. Evans, Rodney Morgan. 294 pgs.

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Prisoners are a uniquely vulnerable social group and protecting them from oppressive states has given rise to a complex web of standards generated by a variety of international mechanisms and processes. Protecting Prisoners examines the most detailed and far-reaching set of custodial standards yet...
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Prisoners are a uniquely vulnerable social group and protecting them from oppressive states has given rise to a complex web of standards generated by a variety of international mechanisms and processes. Protecting Prisoners examines the most detailed and far-reaching set of custodial standards yet devised--those of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT)---and relates them to those of other European and United Nations bodies. The book also examines the reaction of selected Council of Europe member states---Belgium, France, Hungary, the Netherlands, Turkey, and the United Kingdom---to the application of those standards in CPT reports. This dual perspective provides a critical insight into the degree to which the development of international human rights law is having a practical impact on the situation of prisoners.
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Vigilantism and the State in Modern Latin America: Essays on Extralegal Violence (includes "How Not to Talk about Torture: Violence, Theory, and the Problems of Explanation") » Read Now
by Martha K. Huggins. 266 pgs.

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This book is the first major analysis of the vigilantism that accompanies the economic, political, and social disintegration occurring in many Latin American countries. The essays examine the most prominent forms of vigilantism, including mob lynchings, assassinations by self-appointed or privately...
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This book is the first major analysis of the vigilantism that accompanies the economic, political, and social disintegration occurring in many Latin American countries. The essays examine the most prominent forms of vigilantism, including mob lynchings, assassinations by self-appointed or privately employed "enforcers," citizen uprisings against the police, the work of the notorious death squads, and extra-legal violence by on-duty police. The authors show the relationship between vigilantism and authoritarian governments whose inegalitarian practices and economic dependence on foreign powers perpetuate a cycle of poverty, repression, and violence.
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On Crimes and Punishments (includes a section on Torture) » Read Now
by Cesare Beccaria, Henry Paolucci. 104 pgs.

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...XI. Oaths 29 XII. Torture 30 XIII. Prosecutions...the "glory of having expelled the use of torture from every tribunal throughout Christendom...Beccaria, Opere, II , 867...
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Lying and Its Detection: A Study of Deception and Deception Tests (includes "Combat- Ordeal- Torture") » Read Now
by John A. Larson, George W. Haney, Leonarde Keeler, August Vollmer. 458 pgs.

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...ANCIENT AND MODERN FORENSIC METHODS FOR THE DETECTION OF THE INNOCENCE OR GUILT OF THE SUSPECT VII. COMBAT--ORDEAL--TORTURE 65 VIII. POLICE METHODS 94 IX. THE JUDGE AND THE...
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The Politics of Pain: Torturers and Their Masters » Read Now
by Ronald D. Crelinsten, Alex P. Schmid. 195 pgs.

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The Magician, the Witch, and the Law (includes "Res Fragilis: Torture in Early European Law") » Read Now
by Edward Peters. 218 pgs.

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...Apprentice 110 6. The Magician, the Witch, and the Law 138 Appendix 1. Res fragilis : Torture in Early European Law 183 Appendix 2. Nicholas Eymeric: On Heresy, Magic, and...
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Torture & Modernity: Self, Society, and State in Modern Iran » Read Now
by Darius M. Rejali. 291 pgs.

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...TORTURE MODERNITY Self, Society, and State in Modern Iran Darius M. Rejali Torture and Modernity Institutional Structures of Feeling George...Richard Handler, and Vera...
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A Lexicon of Terror: Argentina and the Legacies of Torture » Read Now
by Marguerite Feitlowitz. 304 pgs.

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"We were all out in la charca, and there they were, coming over the ridge, a battalion ready for war, against a schoolhut full of children." Tanks roaring over farmlands, pregnant mothers tortured, their babies stolen and sold on the black market, homes raided in the dead of night, ordinary citizens...
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"We were all out in la charca, and there they were, coming over the ridge, a battalion ready for war, against a schoolhut full of children." Tanks roaring over farmlands, pregnant mothers tortured, their babies stolen and sold on the black market, homes raided in the dead of night, ordinary citizens kidnapped and never seen again--such were the horrors of Argentina's Dirty War. Now, in A Lexicon of Terror, Marguerite Feitlowitz fully exposes the nightmare of sadism, paranoia, and deception the military dictatorship unleashed on the Argentine people, a nightmare that would claim over 30,000 civilians from 1976 to 1983 and whose leaders were recently issued warrants by a Spanish court for the crime of genocide. Feitlowitz explores the perversion of language under state terrorism, both as it's used to conceal and confuse ("The Parliament must be disbanded to rejuvenate democracy") and to domesticate torture and murder. Thus, citizens kidnapped and held in secret concentration camps were "disappeared"; torture was referred to as "intensive therapy"; prisoners thrown alive from airplanes over the ocean were called "fish food." Based on six years of research and moving interviews with peasants, intellectuals, activists, and bystanders, A Lexicon of Terror examines the full impact of this catastrophic period from its inception to the present, in which former torturers, having been pardoned and released from prison, live side by side with those they tortured. Passionately written and impossible to put down, Feitlowitz shows us both the horror of the war and the heroism of those who resisted and survived--their courage, their endurance, their eloquent refusal to be dehumanized in the face of torments even Dante could not have imagined.
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The Basques: Their Struggle for Independence (includes "Democracy and Torture") » Read Now
by Luis Nunez Astrain. 164 pgs.

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Handbook of Post-Traumatic Therapy (Chap. 15 "That Which Does Not Destroy Me: Treating Survivors of Political Torture") » Read Now
by Mary Beth Williams, John F. Sommer Jr. 638 pgs.

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This handbook provides both a conceptual and practical framework for diagnosing, treating, and assessing post-traumatic stress in survivors of violence, abuse, war, ethnocultural problems, political torture, and disaster. The in-depth clinical experience of Williams and Sommer helps define a variety...
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This handbook provides both a conceptual and practical framework for diagnosing, treating, and assessing post-traumatic stress in survivors of violence, abuse, war, ethnocultural problems, political torture, and disaster. The in-depth clinical experience of Williams and Sommer helps define a variety of theories and methods for treating children, adults, families, and other groups with various types of post-tramautic stress disorders. They point to specific new kinds of therapies and types of interventions, and discuss new developments and trends for the treatment of post-traumatic stress. This reference volume, with its lengthy bibliography, is designed for students, teachers, and practitioners in the fields of psychology and psychiatry, social work, medicine, and public health.
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Is Torture an Option in War on Terror? Interrogators Increasingly Frustrated with Hardened Al-Qaeda Terrorists Are Considering the Use of Tactics Once Unthinkable for U.S. Law-Enforcement Officers, in Insight on the News » Read Now
by Martin Edwin Andersen. 3 pgs.

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...Is torture an option in war on terror? Interrogators...face other tactics he said fell short of torture to penetrate Osama bin Ladens shadowy network...which he argued that...
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Preventing Torture: A Study of the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment » Read Now
by Malcolm D. Evans, Rod Morgan. 475 pgs.

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In the 19th century the prohibition of judicial torture was celebrated as a triumph of civilisation. But in the aftermath of the 2nd World War it was necessary for the International community to re-emphasise, in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, its abhorrence of torture: the proscription...
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In the 19th century the prohibition of judicial torture was celebrated as a triumph of civilisation. But in the aftermath of the 2nd World War it was necessary for the International community to re-emphasise, in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, its abhorrence of torture: the proscription of torture became part of international customary law. But torture by agents of contemporary states persists, not least in the heart of Europe where reliance on the use of custody is growing once again. This pathbreaking documentary and empirical study - of a kind rarely undertaken in the field of international human rights law - considers in detail the work of the latest actor on the international stage attempting to prevent torture. The European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment (the CPT), established in 1989, represents a new phase in international human rights intervention. The Council of Europe member states have given a Strasbourg-based Committee of experts an almost unfettered hand to examine their places of custody and report on what they find. The authors, an international lawyer and a criminologist, bring their different analytical perspectives to bear on this innovative human rights mechanism. The authors consider the nature of torture in the late 20th century and, given the pervasive culture of denial, the difficulties in combating it. They argue that utilitarian justifications for torture lurk just beneath the surface of modern liberal democratic state practice. They describe the background to the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture, examine the text and the modus operandi of the Committee, set the CPT's standards against those of other international bodies and discuss how the work of the Committee should best be carried forward in an enlarged and increasingly diverse European community of nations.
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