The Politics of pain : torturers and their masters / edited by Ronald D. Crelinsten, Alex P. Schmid.
Although a wave of democratization appears to be sweeping the globe, torture persists in more than seventy-five nations. Despite widespread condemnation of torture and the efforts of international and nongovernmental organizations to end it, the "politics of pain" continues in a broad rang...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Routledge,
2019.
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| Series: | Series on state violence, state terrorism, and human rights.
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| Summary: | Although a wave of democratization appears to be sweeping the globe, torture persists in more than seventy-five nations. Despite widespread condemnation of torture and the efforts of international and nongovernmental organizations to end it, the "politics of pain" continues in a broad range of social and political systems. This book is one of the first to systematically examine the psychological, cultural, and social origins of torture. It provides profiles of torturers and of those who direct them in their brutal activities. The contributors provide case studies from the past and present, including Somoza's National Guard in Nicaragua and regimes in the Southern Cone of Latin America and in Greece. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0429313926 9780429313929 9781000232905 1000232905 9781000304787 1000304787 9781000268843 1000268845 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Online resource; title from PDF file page (EBSCO, viewed July 18, 2019) |
| Biographical or Historical Data: | Ronald D. Crelinsten, Alex P. Schmid. |