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Author:   Lon Olson ,  Stuart Molloy
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   127
Weight:   0.256kg
ISBN:  

9789004405707

ISBN 10:   9004405704
Pages:   144
Publication Date:   29 August 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction  Lon Olson Part 1 Criminological, Legal and Psychological Perspectives 1 Death Row Inmates: Victims of Torture in the Land of the Free  Diana Medlicott 2 Torture’s In/ Visibility  Hedi Viterbo 3 Facing Evil: Can We Professionally Evaluate Torture?  David Senesh Part 2 Philosophical and Theological Perspectives 4 The Ambiguity of Sovereignty: the Passion Narrative as a Paradox  Toni Koivulahti 5 Barbarians at the Gate: Reasserting a Natural Law Definition of Torture  Lon Olson 6 Beyond the State: Human and Animal Positions Outside the Law  Noora Koivulahti Part 3 Historical and Literary Perspectives 7 Torture, Slavery, Civilisation and Human Rights in the United States 1820–1860  W. Fitzhugh Brundage 8 Torture and Anti-Partisan War: the Case of the Italian Social Republic 1943–1945  Federico Ciavattone 9 The Goli Otok Camp: Torture Justified by External Threats?  Martin Previšić 10 ‘A Real Show of Horrors’: Reading Representations of Torture in A Clockwork Orange and American Psycho  Stuart Molloy Index

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Lon Olson, Ph.D. (2014), University of Texas at Austin, is Director of Assessment at Texas State University, San Marcos and is a lecturer in the Department of Philosophy. He is currently at work on a book on military ethics. Stuart Molloy is a Ph.D. Candidate and Teaching Fellow in English and Literary Studies at The University of Western Australia. Encompassing literature, film and TV, his research interests include the representation of violence and the relationship between masculinity and psychopathology.

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