The phenomenon of torture: readings and commentary

Torture and truth / Page DuBois

The torture of Jesus

Torture and the law of proof / John H. Langbein

Torture / Edward Peters

Discipline and punish / Michel Foucault

An essay on crimes and punishments / Cesare Beccaria

On torture and capital punishment / Voltaire

Preventing torture / Malcolm D. Evans and Rod Morgan

The railway man / Eric Lomax

And night fell / Molefe Pheto

Statement by Abu Ghraib detainee

The Gulag Archipelago / Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A miracle, a universe / Lawrence Weschler

The method / Pericles Korovessis

Torture / Jean Améry

Against our will / Susan Brownmiller

Report Uzbekistan / Amnesty International

Antonia García in Prison of women / Tomasa Cuevas

King Leopold's ghost / Adam Hochschild

The torturer's tale / Keith Atkinson

The perils of obedience / Stanley Milgram

The official torturer / Mika Haritos-Fatouros

Ritual abuse / Joan C. Golston

Hidden terrors / A.J. Langguth

The winter soldier investigation / Jon Drolshagen

Torture / Jean Améry

The torturer's notebooks / Adam Hochschild

The battle of the casbah / Paul Aussaresses

The wretched of the earth / Frantz Fanon

In their own words / Ronald Crelinsten

Human resource exploitation training manual / CIA

The politics of cruelty / Kate Millett

Prisoner without a name, cell without a number / Jacobo Timerman

The body in pain / Elaine Scarry

What's wrong with torture / David Sussman

Intimate terror / Rhonda Copelon

Torture / Pierre Vidal-Naquet

The origins of totalitarianism / Hannah Arendt

Republic of fear / Kanan Makiya

The psychology and culture of torture and torturers / Ervin Staub

How to make a torturer / Ronald Crelinsten

Unspeakable acts, ordinary people / John Conroy

Of torture / Jeremy Bentham

The case for torture / Michael Levin

Kidnapping has Germans debating police torture / Richard Bernstein

Why terrorism works / Alan Dershowitz

Torture / Henry Shue

Suggestions for Japanese interpreters / Sherwood F. Moran

Does torture work? / Darius M. Rejali

Tainted legacy / William Schulz

Landau Commission Report

Supreme Court of Israel judgment

Treatment of victims of torture / Lone Jacobsen and Edith Montgomery

Police officers convicted of torturing man in detention / Amnesty International

Torture spoken here / Minky Worden

Aydin v. Turkey / European Court of Human Rights

International Criminal Court Q & A sheet / Amnesty International

An end to impunity / Geoffrey Robertson

The case of General Pinochet / Geoffrey Robertson

Filartiga v. Pena-Irala / Richard Pierre Claude

The contribution of truth commissions / Priscilla B. Hayner

Human rights education for the police / Marc DuBois

Excerpts from documents : UN Convention against torture ; International Standards Against Torture ; U.S. Army Field Manual.