Preventing Torture: A Study of the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture & Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment - Hardcover

Malcolm D. Evans; Rod Morgan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0756792320 ISBN 13: 9780756792329

Publisher: Diane Pub Co, 1998

Synopsis

Contents: Table of Cases; Table of Principal Treaties, Declarations, Codes of Conduct, & other Internat. Instru.; A Note on the Citation of CPT Documents; The Decline & Re-emergence of Torture; Torture & the Liberal Democratic State: 3 Modern Case Studies; The Prohibition of Torture & Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment; The Origins & Drafting of the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture & Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment; The CPT: Membership, Back-up Services, & ''Modus Operandi''; Findings of Ill-Treatment; Policy Custody: Procedural Safeguards; Conditions of Detention; & Current Assessment & Future Prospects. Appendix: Lists of CPT Visits & of Resulting Reports & Responses, 1990-97.

About this title

About the Author

Malcolm Evans is Reader in International Law at the University of Bristol.

Rod Morgan is Professor of Criminal Justice and Director of the Centre for Criminal Justice at the University of Bristol.

Edition details

• Publisher: Diane Pub Co
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0756792320
• ISBN 13: 9780756792329
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 475