Criminalizing and prosecuting torture could deter practices such as solitary confinement in detention
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Social Sciences
Aug 1, 2023
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Does the American public condone torture when the goal is to prevent terrorist attacks? News headlines reporting the results of a Pew Research Center poll released on Dec. 9 indicate more than half of Americans do. But that ...
Social Sciences
Dec 15, 2014
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Many human rights educators assume – incorrectly, as it turns out – that police and military officers in India who support the torture of suspects do so because they are either immoral or ignorant. This incorrect assumption ...
Social Sciences
Nov 21, 2014
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The Red Cross has called for makers of videogames to more actively embed and interrogate the laws of war by, for example, punishing players for killing civilians or using torture to gain information. However, attempts to ...
Software
Oct 14, 2013
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Allegations of torture by government officials are emerging daily from countries caught up in the struggle for democracy. Derek Elliott, a researcher in Cambridge's Faculty of History, is looking at governmental torture and ...
Other
Jul 6, 2012
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While government officials have argued that "enhanced interrogation techniques" are necessary to protect American citizens, the effectiveness of such techniques has been debated. According to a recent study, when torture ...
Social Sciences
Mar 28, 2012
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Use of torture around the world has not diminished but the techniques used have grown more complex and sophisticated, according to new research from Queen Mary, University of London.
Social Sciences
Dec 23, 2011
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A new UN resolution has the potential to fight torture and cruelty say experts in the British Medical Journal today.
Social Sciences
Feb 26, 2010
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Newly published research suggests that government use of torture has increased worldwide despite international norms discouraging it.
Social Sciences
Sep 3, 2009
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