Torture
Subtitle: moral absolutes and ambiguities
By: Bev Clucas, Gerry Johnstone, Tony Ward (eds.).
Contributors: Clucas, Bev.; Johnstone, Gerry.; Ward, Tony, 1957-
Edition: 1. Aufl.
Series: Studien zur politischen soziologie -- Bd. 2; Schriftenreihe "Studien zur politischen Soziologie" -- Bd. 2.
Publisher: Nomos
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Baden-Baden
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9783832940775
Subjects: Torture -- Moral and ethical aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: 'Jurists, bad Christians' : torture and the rule of law  -- Massimo la Torr; title: Justifying defensive torture  -- Uwe Steinhoff; title: The ticking bomb scenario as a moral scandal  -- Francesco Belvisi; title: Torture and democracy  -- Hauke Brunkhorst; title: Survey of the crime of torture in the jurisprudence of the ICTY  -- Tsvetana Kamenova; title: English law and evidence obtained by torture : vindication of basic principle or judicial abnegation? Implications of A v. Secretary of State for the Home Department  -- Patrick Birkinshaw; title: Bush II's constitutional and legal theory : the constitution of emergency between law and propaganda  -- Agustin José Menéndez; title: Torture, between law and politics : a retrospective view  -- Marina Lalatta Costerbosa; title: Nursing during national socialism : complicity in terror, and heroism  -- Alison J. O'Donnell, Susan Benedict, Jochen Kuhla and Linda Shields /; title: Torture and the paradox of state violence  -- Penny Green and Tony Ward; title: 24 and torture -- Bev Clucas.