NCJ Number
186285
Editor(s)
Rod Morgan,
Malcolm D. Evans
Date Published
1999
Length
304 pages
Annotation
This collection of essays examines the most detailed and far-reaching set of custodial standards yet devised -- those of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) -- and relates them to those of other European and United Nations (UN) bodies; also examined is the reaction of selected Council of Europe Member States to the application of these standards in CPT reports.
Abstract
The two essays in Part One provide an up-to-date and comprehensive account of the work of the CPT. One essay describes the nature of the Convention and the working methods of the CPT. The second essay provides a digest of the jurisprudence of the Committee arranged by class of prisoners. The four essays in Part Two situate the work of the CPT within the torture-prohibiting and torture-preventing framework of international law and human rights activism. One essay discusses the relationship between the CPT and the European Commission and Court of Human Rights; and a second essay explores the manner in which the CPT's standards have expanded, elaborated, and arguably, superseded the European Prison Rules, a code to which the CPT makes little reference. The third essay relates the CPT's efforts to the various UN torture-prohibiting and torture-preventing mechanisms. The fourth essay in Part Two profiles Amnesty International's 12-point program for the prevention of torture. The six essays of Part Three analyze CPT reports on particular countries and the reaction by governments to those reports, as well as their impact on policy. The countries are Belgium, France, Hungary, the Netherlands, Turkey, and the United Kingdom. Appended supplementary information and a subject index