Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents iii
3. Acknowledgements vi
4. Introduction 1
5. The Solution
6. What Is Torture? 17
7. Why Prevention? 34
8. Establishing the Optional Protocol to the United Nations Convention against Torture 49
9. What the Optional Protocol to the United Nations Convention against Torture Requires 65
10. The Visiting Mandate of the UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture 84
11. The UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and National Preventive Mechanisms 102
12. The Problem
13. Visits: An Insider’s Story 123
14. Accepting the Unacceptable 139
15. Excusing the Inexcusable 149
16. Prescribing the Inappropriate 160
17. Working with Fictions 171
18. Thinking Positively about Prevention 184
19. References 199
20. Index 203