The Psychological Origins of Institutionalized Torture

Dados Bibliográficos

ID19916392
AutoresMika Haritos‐Fatouros (autor correspondente), Mika Haritos-Fatouros
Ano2012
Páginas296
Data de publicação2012-12-06
Open AccessNão
TipoBOOK
PeriódicoPsychological Origins of Institutionalized Torture (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9780203714997
OpenAlexW624957530
Open LibraryOL53938683M
ISBN9780203714997
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas20

Original research, including interviews with former Greek torturers, is supplemented by discussion of former studies, military records and other sources, to provide disturbing but valuable insights into the psychology of torture. The book describes parallel situations such as the rites of passage in pre-industrial societies and cults, elite Corps military training and college hazing, eventually concluding that the torturer is not born, but made.Of essential interest to academics and students interested in social psychology and related disciplines, this book will also be extremely valuable to policy-makers, professionals working in government, and all those interested in securing and promoting human rights

Criminology · Human rights · Political science · Torture · Law · Psychology · Torture, Ethics, and Law · Aggressiveness