Torture : Moral Absolutes and Ambiguities / Bev Clucas, Gerry Johnstone, Tony Ward. Volume 2

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Clucas, Bev, editor.

Johnstone, Gerry, editor.

Ward, Tony, editor.

Series:

Studien zur Politischen Soziologie

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Technology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 p.)

Place of Publication:

Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG 2009

[s.l.] : Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Not so long ago, the only respectable question for philosophical, legal, and political scholars to ask about torture was how to ensure its effective legal prohibition. Recently, however, some leading lawyers and legal theorists have challenged those who are absolutely opposed to torture, arguing that, in some circumstances, torture may be morally permissible or even required. This has provoked a range of responses, from outraged dismissal to cautious concessions that the law has to adjust to new realities. This volume contains writings by some of the leading contributors to these debates. Distinctively, it supplements the discussion about the morality of torture - and the morality of discussing torture - with essays which provide important legal, sociological, and historical analyses of this appalling human practice and of the attempts to control it. With an international and interdisciplinary authorship, Torture: Moral Absolutes and Ambiguities will be essential reading for legal and political theorists, philosophers, sociologists, historians, and indeed anybody interested in serious and informed thinking about this most disturbing phenomenon.

Contents:

'Jurists, bad Christians' : torture and the rule of law / Massimo la Torr

Justifying defensive torture / Uwe Steinhoff

The ticking bomb scenario as a moral scandal / Francesco Belvisi

Torture and democracy / Hauke Brunkhorst

Survey of the crime of torture in the jurisprudence of the ICTY / Tsvetana Kamenova

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

Bush II's constitutional and legal theory : the constitution of emergency between law and propaganda / Agustin José Menéndez

Torture, between law and politics : a retrospective view / Marina Lalatta Costerbosa

Nursing during national socialism : complicity in terror, and heroism / Alison J. O'Donnell, Susan Benedict, Jochen Kuhla and Linda Shields / Torture and the paradox of state violence / Penny Green and Tony Ward

24 and torture / Bev Clucas.

Notes:

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783845214986

3845214988

OCLC:

1249172965

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.5771/9783845214986

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access