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Author_Alex Schmid
Author_Ronald D Crelinsten
authoritarian regimes
brutal activities
Category=JHB
Chief Torturers
Detention Cell
Difficult Life Conditions
DOPS
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External Bystanders
Greek Military Police
Home Towns
human rights violations
Junta
Latin American case studies
mechanisms of institutionalized torture
Men's Laughter
Military Junta
Moderate Physical Pressure
obedience to authority
Para-military Groups
Persecution Section
psychological trauma
Somoza's National Guard
state-sponsored violence
SWAPO
Torture Classes
Torture Room
Torture Work
victim dehumanization
World Society Of Victimology
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780367310639
- Weight: 340g
- Dimensions: 161 x 250mm
- Publication Date: 31 May 2021
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Ronald D. Crelinsten, Alex P. Schmid
