Interdisciplinary perspectives on torture / / edited by Lon Olson and Stuart Molloy.

• Superior document: At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries; volume127
• TeilnehmendeR: Olson, Lon,; Molloy, Stuart,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden Boston : : Brill | Rodopi,, 2019.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries; volume127.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (153 pages).

This volume offers diverse insights on how the practice of torture has impacted society and how we view human nature. After the Second World War, it was hoped that torture had been permanently vanquished among modern liberal states, and was only practiced by brutal totalitarian regimes. However, eve...

Table of Contents

• Front Matter
• Copyright
• Acknowledgements
• Notes on Contributors
• Introduction
• Criminological, Legal and Psychological Perspectives
• Death Row Inmates: Victims of Torture in the Land of the Free / Diana Medlicott
• Torture’s In/Visibility / Hedi Viterbo
• Facing Evil: Can We Professionally Evaluate Torture? / David Senesh
• Philosophical and Theological Perspectives
• The Ambiguity of Sovereignty: the Passion Narrative as a Paradox / Toni Koivulahti
• Barbarians at the Gate: Reasserting a Natural Law Definition of Torture / Lon Olson
• Beyond the State: Human and Animal Positions outside the Law / Noora Koivulahti
• Historical and Literary Perspectives
• Torture, Slavery, Civilisation and Human Rights in the United States, 1820–1860 / W. Fitzhugh Brundage
• Torture and Anti-Partisan War: the Case of the Italian Social Republic, 1943–1945 / Federico Ciavattone
• The Goli Otok Camp: Torture Justified by External Threats? / Martin Previšić
• ‘A Real Show of Horrors’: Reading Representations of Torture in A Clockwork Orange and American Psycho / Stuart Molloy
• Back Matter
• Index.