Description
This landmark practical guide assists all those involved in monitoring detention conditions and investigating and preventing torture. The prestigious global author team identify the medical, legal and professional frameworks and international instruments applicable to those detained, and highlight how torture or other cruel and inhuman degrading treatments or punishments are identified, investigated and should be prevented.
· A comprehensive and wide range of detention settings and circumstances are covered including police stations, prisons, mental health, and social care civil conditions to prisoner of war, detention camps, military, and armed conflict.
· Advice, monitoring, and assessment is given for special groups, including the custody of women, children, vulnerable adults, and individuals on hunger strike
· Practical guidelines are given for the assessment of ill-treatment of individuals in custody including sexual abuse
· Online links to the latest legal, ethical, and medical guidelines for key countries help to make this book appropriate for all.
Challenging, thought-provoking yet thoroughly practical, this book is essential reading for anyone involved in the monitoring of detention conditions and the treatment and investigation of individuals in any form of custody. The content is aimed primarily at healthcare professionals but it also highly relevant for anyone who may form part of a visiting team, including lay individuals, lawyers and law enforcement professionals, as well as for academics.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
- International legal framework on torture
- The role and responsibilities of health professionals involved in the care of those in detention
- Standards applicable in the prevention of torture in places of detention
- Healthcare for those in detention
- Psychological assessment and documentation of torture in detention
- Assessment of physical evidence of torture or cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment during visits to places of detention
- Radiology in the documentation of torture and ill-treatment
- Management of hunger strikes in detention
- Legal aspects of detention in military detention
- Sexual assault in detention
- Children in detention
- Investigation of ill-treatment during detention
- Investigation of deaths in custody
- The Istanbul Protocol: development, practical application and future directions
- Dilemmas for healthcare professionals involved in the care of detainees
- Solitary confinement: current concerns and proposed protections
Juan E. Méndez
Jørgen L. Thomsen
Jonathan Beynon
Michael Levy
Nimisha Patel
Jason Payne-James, Jonathan Beynon and Duarte Nuno Vieira
Hermann Vogel
Hernán Reyes
Kirsty Sutherland and Peter Glenser
Jason Payne-James
Peter Green
Hernán Reyes
Marc Bollman, Morris Tidball-Binz, Bernice Elger and Patrice Mangin
Vincent Iacopino
Máximo Alberto Duque Piedrahíta
Sharon Shalev
