Tackling Torture: Prevention in Practice

Malcolm D. Evans

doi:10.46692/9781529225716

Tackling Torture

Prevention in Practice

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Malcolm D. Evans, University of Oxford

Publisher:: Bristol University Press
Online publication date:: January 2024
Print publication year:: 2023
Online ISBN:: 9781529225716
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.46692/9781529225716

Subjects:: Public International Law, Law, Criminal Law

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Malcolm D. Evans tells the story of torture prevention under international law, setting out what is really happening in places of detention around the world. Challenging assumptions about torture's root causes, he calls for what is needed to enable us to bring about change.

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Prevention in Practice

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Frontmatter
pp i-ii

Contents
pp iii-v

Acknowledgements
pp vi-vi

Introduction
pp 1-14

PART I - The Solution
pp 15-16

1 - What Is Torture?
pp 17-33

2 - Why Prevention?
pp 34-48

3 - Establishing the Optional Protocol to the United Nations Convention against Torture
pp 49-64

4 - What the Optional Protocol to the United Nations Convention against Torture Requires
pp 65-83

5 - The Visiting Mandate of the UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture
pp 84-101

6 - The UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and National Preventive Mechanisms
pp 102-120

PART II - The Problem
pp 121-122

7 - Visits: An Insider's Story
pp 123-138

8 - Accepting the Unacceptable
pp 139-148

9 - Excusing the Inexcusable
pp 149-159

10 - Prescribing the Inappropriate
pp 160-170

11 - Working with Fictions
pp 171-183

12 - Thinking Positively about Prevention
pp 184-198

References
pp 199-202

Index
pp 203-207

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