Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-25-2014
Publication Title
Laws
Volume
4
Issue
1
First Page
1
Last Page
15
Abstract
Why does torture persist despite its prohibition? Scholars, policymakers, and the public have heavily debated this topic in the past decade. Yet, many puzzles remain about the practice of torture. Scholarship on torture spans academic disciplines, which adds diversity in perspectives brought to these questions but also can lead to redundancy and stunted progress in research on the issue as a whole. This article assesses the state of the multidisciplinary literature on torture in counterterrorism with specific focus on why democracies torture despite prohibiting it, how public perception of torture is malleable, and why so few countries are able to move from commitment to compliance in the prohibition of torture. In each section, the article also identifies underexplored areas in the research and suggests avenues for future investigation.
Recommended Citation
Kearns, E. M. (2014, December 25). The study of Torturre: Why It Persists, Why Perceptions of It are Malleable, and Why It is Difficulty to Eradicate. Laws, 4(1), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.3390/laws4010001
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Authors hold copyright. This is an article published in Laws on December 25, 2014 and can be accessed: https://doi.org/10.3390/laws4010001