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There is growing recognition that torture is very narrowly defined in domestic and international laws, and that the endemic nature of psychological and/or sexualised violence against women is not adequately recognised as torture. Concretely defining torturous violence, this book offers scholars and practitioners a nuanced way to critically reflect on how torture is defined, and the implications that narrow definitions may have on survivors. Drawing on over a decade of research and interviews with psychologists and women seeking asylum, it sets out the implications of social silencing of torture in its narrowest sense, and torturous violence more broadly. It invites us to consider alternative ways to understand and address the impacts of such endemic physical, sexualised and psychological abuses.

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"""This book would appeal not only to critical criminologists, but also to any practitioner or scholar working on the nexus of violence and law, state crime, psychology, anthropology, feminism or migration. Canning's insights are freshly and searingly written."" Theoretical Criminology"

"“This book would appeal not only to critical criminologists, but also to any practitioner or scholar working on the nexus of violence and law, state crime, psychology, anthropology, feminism or migration. Canning's insights are freshly and searingly written.” Theoretical Criminology ""We consider Professor Canning’s book to be an important contribution that will help define and deepen the contours of torture and, in this sense, a highly recommended read for reflecting on forms of tortuous conduct where there is no direct state responsibility and a valuable read for any activists and academics working in this area."" Torture"

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Victoria Canning is senior lecturer in Criminology at the University of Bristol. She is currently co-coordinator of the European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control, associate director in Border Criminologies at Oxford University, and Trustee of Statewatch. She researches violence, harm and torture and has worked for more than a decade on migrant rights and women's rights. She is co-creator of the Right to Remain Asylum Navigation Board (with Lisa Matthews). Her first monograph, Gendered Harm and Structural Violence in the British Asylum System, won the 2018 British Society of Criminology book prize.

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