Tortured

Author : Lisa Silverman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2001-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0226757536

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Tortured Subjects by Lisa Silverman Pdf

At one time in Europe, there was a point to pain: physical suffering could be a path to redemption. This religious notion suggested that truth was lodged in the body and could be achieved through torture. In Tortured Subjects, Lisa Silverman tells the haunting story of how this idea became a fixed part of the French legal system during the early modern period. Looking closely at the theory and practice of judicial torture in France from 1600 to 1788, the year in which it was formally abolished, Silverman revisits dossiers compiled in criminal cases, including transcripts of interrogations conducted under torture, as well as the writings of physicians and surgeons concerned with the problem of pain, records of religious confraternities, diaries and letters of witnesses to public executions, and the writings of torture's abolitionists and apologists. She contends that torture was at the center of an epistemological crisis that forced French jurists and intellectuals to reconsider the relationship between coercion and sincerity, or between free will and evidence. As the philosophical consensus on which torture rested broke down, and definitions of truth and pain shifted, so too did the foundation of torture, until by the eighteenth century, it became an indefensible practice.

Author : Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IOWA:31858005979285

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A Tortured Heart by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth Pdf

Author : Sanford Levinson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780195306460

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Torture by Sanford Levinson Pdf

This collection of essays will address some of the most controversial issues surrounding torture: how it is used by governments, legal definitions of torture, the theological implications of torturing, torture in declared states of emergency and why it should be prohibited.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Foreign Affairs Committee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045299026

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Torture and Oppression in Brazil by United States. Congress. House. Foreign Affairs Committee Pdf

Author : W. Fitzhugh Brundage
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674244702

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Civilizing Torture by W. Fitzhugh Brundage Pdf

Pulitzer Prize Finalist Silver Gavel Award Finalist “A sobering history of how American communities and institutions have relied on torture in various forms since before the United States was founded.” —Los Angeles Times “That Americans as a people and a nation-state are violent is indisputable. That we are also torturers, domestically and internationally, is not so well established. The myth that we are not torturers will persist, but Civilizing Torture will remain a powerful antidote in confronting it.” —Lawrence Wilkerson, former Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell “Remarkable...A searing analysis of America’s past that helps make sense of its bewildering present.” —David Garland, author of Peculiar Institution Most Americans believe that a civilized state does not torture, but that belief has repeatedly been challenged in moments of crisis at home and abroad. From the Indian wars to Vietnam, from police interrogation to the War on Terror, US institutions have proven far more amenable to torture than the nation’s commitment to liberty would suggest. Civilizing Torture traces the history of debates about the efficacy of torture and reveals a recurring struggle to decide what limits to impose on the power of the state. At a time of escalating rhetoric aimed at cleansing the nation of the undeserving and an erosion of limits on military power, the debate over torture remains critical and unresolved.

Author : Laurence Ralph
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226729800

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The Torture Letters by Laurence Ralph Pdf

Torture is an open secret in Chicago. Nobody in power wants to acknowledge this grim reality, but everyone knows it happens—and that the torturers are the police. Three to five new claims are submitted to the Torture Inquiry and Relief Commission of Illinois each week. Four hundred cases are currently pending investigation. Between 1972 and 1991, at least 125 black suspects were tortured by Chicago police officers working under former Police Commander Jon Burge. As the more recent revelations from the Homan Square “black site” show, that brutal period is far from a historical anomaly. For more than fifty years, police officers who took an oath to protect and serve have instead beaten, electrocuted, suffocated, and raped hundreds—perhaps thousands—of Chicago residents. In The Torture Letters, Laurence Ralph chronicles the history of torture in Chicago, the burgeoning activist movement against police violence, and the American public’s complicity in perpetuating torture at home and abroad. Engaging with a long tradition of epistolary meditations on racism in the United States, from James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time to Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me, Ralph offers in this book a collection of open letters written to protesters, victims, students, and others. Through these moving, questing, enraged letters, Ralph bears witness to police violence that began in Burge’s Area Two and follows the city’s networks of torture to the global War on Terror. From Vietnam to Geneva to Guantanamo Bay—Ralph’s story extends as far as the legacy of American imperialism. Combining insights from fourteen years of research on torture with testimonies of victims of police violence, retired officers, lawyers, and protesters, this is a powerful indictment of police violence and a fierce challenge to all Americans to demand an end to the systems that support it. With compassion and careful skill, Ralph uncovers the tangled connections among law enforcement, the political machine, and the courts in Chicago, amplifying the voices of torture victims who are still with us—and lending a voice to those long deceased.

Author : James M. Jaranson,Michael K. Popkin
Publisher : American Psychiatric Pub
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0880487747

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Caring for Victims of Torture by James M. Jaranson,Michael K. Popkin Pdf

Since its beginnings in the 1970s, the field of torture rehabilitation has grown rapidly. A growing awareness about the practice of torture (more than 100 countries today practice government-sanctioned torture) and its effects on victims is leading to an increasing number of dedicated treatment centers. The health care professionals on the staffs of these centers need the best, most up-to-date information and advice they can get. This book delivers it. Caring for Victims of Torture contains all the collective wisdom of some of the most respected international experts in the treatment of victims of government torture -- all distinguished physicians -- including pioneers in the field of traumatic stress. Contributors discuss the most recent advances in knowledge about government-sanctioned torture and offer practical approaches to the diagnosis and treatment of torture victims. Organized into six main sections, this annotated volume provides an overview of the history and politics of torture and rehabilitation; guidance in identifying and defining the sequelae of torture; a framework for assessment and treatment; specific treatment interventions; and a discussion of ethical implications. In the final section, physicians working in the field offer firsthand accounts and address how they are trying to balance politics with caregiving. Focusing on the physician's role, this book is chiefly a clinical guide. But for advanced-level students, it serves as a thorough, up-to-date text and reference work. Religious leaders, lawyers, politicians, human rights advocates, and torture victims themselves will find it a valuable resource as well.

Author : Donatella Di Cesare
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781509524389

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Torture by Donatella Di Cesare Pdf

Torture is not as universally condemned as it once was. From Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib prisons to the death of Giulio Regeni, countless recent cases have shocked public opinion. But if we want to defend the human dignity that torture violates, simple indignation is not enough. In this important book, Donatella Di Cesare provides a critical perspective on torture in all its dimensions. She seeks to capture the peculiarity of an extreme and methodical violence where the tormentor calculates and measures out pain so that he can hold off the victim’s death, allowing him to continue to exercise his sovereign power. For the victim, being tortured is like experiencing his own death while he is still alive. Torture is a threat wherever the defenceless find themselves in the hands of the strong: in prisons, in migrant camps, in nursing homes, in centres for the disabled and in institutions for minors. This impassioned book will appeal to students and scholars of philosophy and political theory as well as to anyone committed to defending human rights as universal and inviolable.

Author : United States. Congress. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Military interrogation
ISBN : WISC:89113072300

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Is it Torture Yet? by United States. Congress. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe Pdf

Examines what constitutes torture or other forms of prohibited ill-treatment, what legal norms apply, and what is known about the effectiveness of various interrogation methods.

Author : Cynthia Banham
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781509906826

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Liberal Democracies and the Torture of Their Citizens by Cynthia Banham Pdf

This book analyses and compares how the USA's liberal allies responded to the use of torture against their citizens after 9/11. Did they resist, tolerate or support the Bush Administration's policies concerning the mistreatment of detainees when their own citizens were implicated and what were the reasons for their actions? Australia, the UK and Canada are liberal democracies sharing similar political cultures, values and alliances with America; yet they behaved differently when their citizens, caught up in the War on Terror, were tortured. How states responded to citizens' human rights claims and predicaments was shaped, in part, by demands for accountability placed on the executive government by domestic actors. This book argues that civil society actors, in particular, were influenced by nuanced differences in their national political and legal contexts that enabled or constrained human rights activism. It maps the conditions under which individuals and groups were more or less likely to become engaged when fellow citizens were tortured, focusing on national rights culture, the domestic legal and political human rights framework, and political opportunities.

Author : Alfred W. McCoy
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780299288532

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Torture and Impunity by Alfred W. McCoy Pdf

Many Americans have condemned the “enhanced interrogation” techniques used in the War on Terror as a transgression of human rights. But the United States has done almost nothing to prosecute past abuses or prevent future violations. Tracing this knotty contradiction from the 1950s to the present, historian Alfred W. McCoy probes the political and cultural dynamics that have made impunity for torture a bipartisan policy of the U.S. government. During the Cold War, McCoy argues, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency covertly funded psychological experiments designed to weaken a subject’s resistance to interrogation. After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the CIA revived these harsh methods, while U.S. media was flooded with seductive images that normalized torture for many Americans. Ten years later, the U.S. had failed to punish the perpetrators or the powerful who commanded them, and continued to exploit intelligence extracted under torture by surrogates from Somalia to Afghanistan. Although Washington has publicly distanced itself from torture, disturbing images from the prisons at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo are seared into human memory, doing lasting damage to America’s moral authority as a world leader.

Author : Stephen Kershnar
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0761821538

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Desert, Retribution, and Torture by Stephen Kershnar Pdf

In general, there are two ways in which punishment is justified. Forward-looking justifications look to the good results that punishment brings about and that therefore occur after it. These results include the wrongdoer being deterred, incapacitated, or improved, as well as the deterrence of would-be wrongdoers, a decrease in costs associated with crime prevention, less fear in the community, and the promotion of hatred and disgust for actions that victimize others. In contrast, backward-looking justifications look to events that occurred before the punishment. On this approach, punishment is not justified via the good results that it brings about. The dominant backward-looking justification is retributivism. According to it, the wrongdoer in virtue of his past act deserves punishment and this desert justifies punishment. This book is an in-depth defense of retributivism. Since punitive desert lies at the heart of retributivism, it is important to provide an analysis of it. This is the focus of the first part of the book. I argue that punitive desert has to do with punishment being an intrinsically valuable event, where its value results from its standing in a certain relation to a person's having culpably performed a wrongdoing. I argue that this type of desert does not by itself contain moral duties to act in any way. In particular, it does not impose on someone the duty to punish a wrongdoer. This results in retributivism being more complex than the traditional accounts, since it must therefore involve duties that refer to but are not constituted by punitive desert. I also argue that punitive desert is independent of the wrongdoer's moral character and instead rests solely on a person's acts. Lastly, I argue that the value of punitive desert cannot be accounted for via more fundamental moral considerations. This results in punitive desert being a rather primitive moral notion in that it is not justified via more fundamental moral values. Like other intrinsically good things, e.g. friendship, and other intrinsically bad things, e.g. promise-breaking, punitive desert can be used to explain why certain states of affairs are both good and right.--Adapted from introduction.

Author : Richard Carver,Lisa Handley
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781781383520

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Does Torture Prevention Work? by Richard Carver,Lisa Handley Pdf

The first systematic analysis of the effectiveness of torture prevention.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Human rights
ISBN : UCR:31210010004966

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Convention Against Torture by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations Pdf

Author : Mirko Bagaric,Julie Clarke
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007-05-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780791479674

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Torture by Mirko Bagaric,Julie Clarke Pdf

Argues that there are moral grounds to use torture where the lives of the innocent are at stake.