Understanding and preventing torture: a review of the literature

This article reviews the social scientific literature on the causes of and prevention of torture, analyzes its successes and failures, and proposes a way forward. Many researchers have adopted a rational-actor, principal-agent framework, which fails to fully account for the multiple and often irrati...

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Main Author: Einolf, Christopher J. 1969- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2023
In: Human rights review
Year: 2023, Volume: 24, Issue: 3, Pages: 319-338
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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