Torture - An Interdisciplinary Approach

Drawing on insights from political science, criminology, and sociology, Torture: An Interdisciplinary Approach investigates the nature and evolution of torture. By surveying the use of torture across time and space, this book considers the development of an international human rights discourse challenging the legitimacy of torture as an instrument of interrogation.
Kathleen Barrett, George Klay Kieh, Jr., Gavin M. Lee, and Neema Noori critically assess the effectiveness of legal regimes, both national and international, that arose as a result of this discourse and the emergent global movement to ban the use of torture. In addition to grappling with colonial legacies of torture and the particular ways that great powers, whether liberal or illiberal, deploy these coercive practices, this book argues that torture continues to serve as a repressive practice that mediates the relationship between the state and its citizens in many countries within the global south. The authors demonstrate that as governments move away from one set of perceived atrocities, they develop new methods of torture and establish novel strategies for justifying these coercive practices.

List of contents

Introduction: Mapping the Torture Landscape
Chapter 1: Explaining Torture: Theoretical Issues
Chapter 2: The History of Torture
Chapter 3: Torture: Legal Regimes
Chapter 4: Torture and Empire
Chapter 5: The State and Torture in the Global South
Chapter 6: Terrorist Torture
Chapter 7: Sexual Sadism
Chapter 8: Alternatives to Torture
Conclusion

About the author

By Kathleen Barrett; George Klay Kieh, Jr.; Gavin M. Lee and Neema Noori

Product details

• Authors: Kathleen Barrett, Jr. Kieh, Jr. George Klay Kieh, George Klay Kieh Jr, Gavin M Lee, Gavin M. Lee, Neema Noori
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.07.2024
• EAN: 9781793624505
• ISBN: 978-1-79362-450-5
• No. of pages: 198
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Terrorism, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, Terrorism, armed struggle, Civil rights & citizenship, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Human rights, civil rights