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

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 OperandiÓ; 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.Evans, Malcolm D. is the author of 'Preventing Torture: A Study of the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment', published 2005 under ISBN 9780756792329 and ISBN 0756792320.