Torture: An Expert's Confrontation with an Everyday Evil by Edward Peters, Edward Peters
Torture: An Expert's Confrontation with an Everyday Evil

Edward Peters, Edward Peters

Torture: An Expert's Confrontation with an Everyday Evil

Edward Peters, Edward Peters

304 pages first pub 1985 (editions)

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"Torture has ceased to exist," Victor Hugo claimed, with some justification, in 1874. Yet more than a century later, torture is used routinely in one out of every three countries. This book is about torture in Western society from earliest times t...

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