Description
Book SynopsisThis landmark practical guide assists all those involved in monitoring detention conditions and investigating and preventing torture. The prestigious global author team identify the medical, legal and professional frameworks and international instruments applicable to those detained, and highlight how torture or other cruel and inhuman degrading treatments or punishments are identified, investigated and should be prevented.
A comprehensive and wide range of detention settings and circumstances are covered including police stations, prisons, mental health, and social care civil conditions to prisoner of war, detention camps, military, and armed conflict.
Advice, monitoring, and assessment is given for special groups, including the custody of women, children, vulnerable adults, and individuals on hunger strike
Practical guidelines are given for the assessment of ill-treatment of individuals in custody including sexual abuse
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Table of Contents
Table of Contents
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- International legal framework on torture
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Juan E. Méndez
- The role and responsibilities of health professionals involved in the care of those in detention
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Jørgen L. Thomsen
- Standards applicable in the prevention of torture in places of detention
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Jonathan Beynon
- Healthcare for those in detention
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Michael Levy
- Psychological assessment and documentation of torture in detention
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Nimisha Patel
- Assessment of physical evidence of torture or cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment during visits to places of detention
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Jason Payne-James, Jonathan Beynon and Duarte Nuno Vieira
- Radiology in the documentation of torture and ill-treatment
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Hermann Vogel
- Management of hunger strikes in detention
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Hernán Reyes
- Legal aspects of detention in military detention
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Kirsty Sutherland and Peter Glenser
- Sexual assault in detention
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Jason Payne-James
- Children in detention
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Peter Green
- Investigation of ill-treatment during detention
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Hernán Reyes
- Investigation of deaths in custody
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Marc Bollman, Morris Tidball-Binz, Bernice Elger and Patrice Mangin
- The Istanbul Protocol: development, practical application and future directions
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Vincent Iacopino
- Dilemmas for healthcare professionals involved in the care of detainees
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Máximo Alberto Duque Piedrahíta
- Solitary confinement: current concerns and proposed protections
Sharon Shalev
