Series: Oxford Amnesty Lectures

A collection of essays and responses from diverse contributors united in an original examination of the intersection between incarceration and human rights. What do human rights concerns dictate about the practices that we tolerate in places of incarceration? Conversely, what can prisons, their hard facts, and the ideas underpinning them tell us about human rights? Incarceration and Human Rights offers...

This book covers the many topics of the war on terror from legal, philosophical, economic, and historical perspectives. The dialogue form of the book, featuring essay-response sections, allows a broad representation of views, covering the situation in the Middle East, national security, politics of intervention, human rights, torture, and the motives of the Iraq War.