Torturing Environments

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Torturing Environments

Psychological, Clinical and Legal Dimensions

Perez-Sales, Pau

Taylor & Francis Ltd

03/2026

244

Mole

Inglês

9781041072201

15 a 20 dias

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Torturing environments: Review of the concept and applications

List of Tables

About the author: Pau Perez-Sales

Why this book?

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1

Understanding Torture and Torturing Environments

1. Definition of Torture: a quick reminder

The legal definition and its complexities

2. Torturing Environments: A New Conceptual Framework

Elements of the legal definition of Torture and Torturing Environments

Is suffering a necessary element of a Torturing Environment?

What about Intentionality and Purpose?

Acting in official capacity. State Responsibility in Torturing Environments

Torturing environments do not need to be physical. There can be mental jails

Any element of everyday life can be part of a Torturing Environment

But then: are torturing environments the same or equivalent to torture?

3. Unpacking torturous environments

Physical Survival

Sense of security: Fear

The importance of Control: Powerlessness, uncertainty and uncontrollability

Identity, Dignity and attacks on the self

Defining identity

Shattering core beliefs

Dignity and moral harm: humiliation, guilt and shame

4. Torturing Environments as applied to collective subjects

Beyond the Individual: Coercion, Identity, and the Targeting of Communities

Does a torturing environment for groups or communities imply a crime of torture?

Components of a torturing environment as applied to groups or communities

The case of the Zapatista communities in Chiapas

Chapter 2

Torturing or Torturous Environments: Contexts of Application.

Police stations and other Short-Term detention centres.

Incommunicado detention and torture in Spain.

Prison as a Torturing Environment

Evin Prison. Documentary analysis

Macarena Rodriguez - Network of Independent Forensic Experts of Mexico

Conditions in confinement

Julian Assange: Life conditions in the Embassy of Ecuador.

Torturing environments in the context of migration

Mexico and migrant detention centres as torturous environments

Greece. The camp of Moria on the island of Lesvos. Architecture of torture in Europe.

Spain's African border: the impacts of reception

The concept of Torturing Environment applied to groups or communities. Rama and Creole Peoples in defence of their collective rights.

Can poverty be a form of CIDT or torture?

The slum of Canada Real Galiana: a history of resistance

Threats and Harassment of Human Rights Defenders.

Collective Jose Alvear Restrepo (CAJAR) versus Colombia.

Chapter 3

Legal precedents supporting the notion of Torturing Environments

Special Rapporteur on Torture.

Factors determining whether an "environment" is considered a cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment in Regional and International human rights bodies

Regional and international human rights tribunals

Can Torturing Environments exist without an intentional element?

On the so-called "cumulative effects" and the duration of the conditions amounting to ill-treatment or torture.

On the determination of suffering

On the progressive incorporation of a community or group perspective in the assessment of cases by Courts

On the concept of "coercive environment" in international law.

Coercive environments versus Torturing Environments

Case studies

Enforced disappearance.

Ill-treatment in institutions for persons with disabilities

Human Rights violations against ethnic groups.

Actions on indigenous peoples

Chapter 4

Learnings and discussions on defining and measuring torturous environments

The Torturing Environments Scale: focus on persons or institutions.

Measuring Torturing Environments. TES and TES 2.0.

Adapting the TES to local conditions

Validation studies

Testing and discussing the TES

Where to put the eye: the difficulties inherent to the analysis of torturing environments and ideas to sort them.

Some guidance on the objective-subjective dilemma

Inter-rater reliability.

Score and overall rating.

Chapter 5. The Torturing Environment Scale.

The updated version of the Torturing Environment Scale (TES 2.0)

Scoring and interpretation of results

Steps to score the TES

The Torturing Environment Scale - Community version (TES C -)

Chapter 6

Assessment of particular conditions within a Torturing Environment - Quick Reference Cards.

Quick Reference Card 0. A summary of a summary

Quick Reference Card 1. Roadmap of a Torturing Environment Study

Quick Reference Card 2. Security of Survivors and Witnesses.

1. Risk Assessment. Elements to consider.

2. Security Plan for a Threatened Person in Prison

3. Security plan for threats in non-detention settings

4. Psychological support of a person under threat.

Quick Reference Card 3. Securing data

Quick Reference Card 4 - Ethical Standards of Interviewing

Quick Reference Card 5. Conducting a Trauma-Informed Interview on Sensitive Matters.

Quick Reference Card 6. First Evidence Interview Model

Quick Reference Card 7. Dealing with Critical Emotions

Quick Reference Card 8. Checklist of Legal safeguards before and during detention

Quick Reference Card 9. Minimum Standards of Detention when Assessing Torturing Environments

Quick Reference Card 10. Checklist of Elements to Explore Related to Psychological Torture in a Monitoring Visit to a Short-Term or Long-Term Detention Facility.

Quick Reference Card 11. Documenting Solitary Confinement

Quick Reference Card 12. Documenting Sleep Deprivation

Quick Reference Card 13. Documenting Threats and Fear producing conditions

Quick Reference Card 14. Documenting actions Targeting the Sense of Control

Quick Reference Card 15. Documenting Actions Targeting Identity, Dignity and Attacks on the Self.

Quick Reference Card 16. Gathering Information on Gender and Sexual Related Violence

Quick reference Card 17. Assessing Coercive Interrogation as part of a Torturing Environment

Quick Reference Card 18. Consistency Analysis.

Quick reference Card 19. Checklist of Main Community Impacts.

Chapter 7

Concluding Remarks

Annex 1. Comparison between TES 1.0 and TES2.0

References

Legal references

Index
forensic psychology;human rights law;detention conditions;trauma assessment;structural violence analysis;qualitative fieldwork methods;psychological torture documentation