This Side of Silence - Human Rights, Torture, and the Recognition of Cruelty

This Side of Silence is an anthropological examination of the tension involved in attempts to recognize torture, and the implications that this has for the types of perpetrator that can be held accountable and particular survivors that can be protected.

List of contents

Introduction

Chapter 1. Talking about Torture after the Human Rights Revolution

Chapter 2. The Legal Recognition of Torture Survivors

Chapter 3. Clinical Evidence about Torture

Chapter 4. Predicting the Future Risk of Torture

Chapter 5. Prosecuting Torture

Chapter 6. The Shame of Torture

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Acknowledgments

About the author

By Tobias Kelly

Summary

This Side of Silence is an anthropological examination of the tension involved in attempts to recognize torture, and the implications that this has for the types of perpetrator that can be held accountable and particular survivors that can be protected.

Product details

• Authors: Tobias Kelly
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.10.2013
• EAN: 9780812222814
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-2281-4
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights; Pennsylvania Studies in Human; Pennsylvania Studies in Human; Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education