Torture
An Expert's Confrontation with an Everyday Evil
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Word Count
52,000 words, Guess
Page Count
208 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL27359515M
- ISBN-139780812249910
- ISBN-100812249917
- OCLC Control Number1000136873
- Library of Congress Control Number2017049246
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- Amazon0812249917
Classifications
- LCCHV8593.N69135 2018
Description
"In his six years as the United Nations special rapporteur on torture, Manfred Nowak was tasked with reviewing thousands of complaints of torture and detention, investigating facts and circumstances surrounding the global practice of torture, and drawing up recommendations aimed at combating the practice. Now, in Torture, readers can get a first hand glimpse of how modern-day torture is investigated and understood by those working on the frontlines of researching, addressing, and preventing it. Nowak recounts his experience visiting countries, reviewing documents, collecting evidence, and conducting interviews with perpetrators, witnesses, and victims of torture. He offers vignettes of the many states he visited, comparing their diverse experiences, and he explores the rise of new twenty-first century forms of torture, questioning whether capital punishment, corporal punishment, solitary confinement, and contemporary forms of slavery qualify as torture."--Book jacket
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