Science du gouvernement et manière de punir dans l’espace germanique : la conception pénale de Joseph von Sonnenfels et son évolution (seconde moitié du XVIIIe siècle)  by Olivier Coelho

“…Historians especially underlined his opposition to the death penalty and torture. Sonnenfels was also one of the foremost exponents of the cameral sciences, a discipline aimed at defining the principles of good government that was becoming increasingly important in German universities at the time. …”
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A verdade em tempos de ditadura militar: reflexões a partir da psicanálise by Nadir Lara Junior

“…They intend to turn the truth of the violence and horror of torture into something mild and negligible. For this purpose, we use psychoanalytical theory, which helps us to understand the system of oppression introduced during the military dictatorship in Brazil, as well as the contemporary discursive construction that presents that regime as a "ditabranda" (a Portuguese play on words that roughly means "a soft dictatorship"). …”
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L’univers des anciens prisonniers politiques en Syrie by Yassin al-Haj Saleh

“…While prison life, interrogations and torture are sometimes discussed by ex-prisoners, their post-prison existence does not seem to arouse any interest in society. …”
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Prendre soin du détenu, surveiller l’enfermement. Les Compagnies de la Miséricorde dans l’espace belge de l’Ancien Régime aux Révolutions (1600-1830) by Xavier Rousseaux

“…Some of these circulations and exchanges between inside and outside the walls were ritualised and structured in one of the major frameworks of sociability: that of the religious brotherhoods, in particular those of the Misericordia or of Saint-Jean Décollé, patron saint of the tortured and the prisoners. Born out of concern for the accompaniment of the dying during the great epidemic of the Black Death, some specialised in accompanying prisoners to the final torture. …”
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(Des)memória e catástrofe: considerações sobre a literatura pós-golpe de 1964 by Ettore Finazzi-Agrò

“…In this context, the stories – told by many authors and some of the survivors of repression – seem to play an important role in supplying the deficiencies of the History, in order to show, effectively even if through fiction, the nefas that characterized in particular torture and murder of opponents. The status of literature – his ability to say what is forbidden to historiography, the possibility of recreating the real through imagination – drove, in fact, many writers to witness the horror and violence that marked the regime established in Brazil fifty years ago, even giving us the “physical” representation of pain and blood generated by a power acting in a “state of exception”.…”
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Le viol : un crime spécifique. Quelques pistes de réflexions issues de l’anthropologie by Véronique Nahoum-Grappe

“…These sexual crimes must then be seen as torture in a situation of impunity, in a logic of domination; they are crimes of defilement where shame and guilt fall on the side of the victim and whose deliberate political use as a tactic designed to destroy the social fabric of the enemy civilian population needs to be investigated in a specific way (as for example currently in the war in Ukraine (2022-20??).…”
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L’iconographie de la croix sur les sarcophages du haut Moyen Âge en Gaule by Anne Flammin

“…In the fifth century, the instrument of torture was clearly represented and often covered with a splendid decoration of precious stones. …”
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Qual será a verdade do jeitinho brasileiro? Perspectivas sobre a Comissão Nacional da Verdade do Brasil by Rodrigo Stumpf González, Rodrigo Lentz

“…The last three elected presidents can be considered victims of the old regime and they suffered persecutions of different natures, such as exile, imprisonment and torture. In 2012, a National Truth Commission has been implemented with the aim of establishing the memory and the truth about human rights violations committed by State agents over the past 66 years. …”
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Un roman néo-gothique : The Three Impostors d’Arthur Machen (1895) by Claire Wrobel

“…Although he didn’t refer to a well-defined « Gothic » genre, Arthur Machen, in his 1895 novel, took up many elements which had by then become traditional. Medieval torture instruments and haunted Celtic forests no longer breed fear, but are used with excess and with parodic distance. …”
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Réprimer par le droit : L’intervention de la Brigade nationale de police judicaire dans les procès du Hirak El-Rif by Mariam Benalioua

“…By describing the arrest and interrogation practices of Hirak activists, this article shows how the BNPJ has abandoned the old methods of enforced disappearance, torture and arbitrary detention, to make the law its weapon of repression. …”
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Pirates and Gallows at Execution Dock : Nautical Justice in Early Modern England by Samantha Frénée

“…A pirate’s career could end in a number of ways: imprisonment, fines, torture, execution by hanging, a negotiated release, a royal pardon, escape, exile or respectable retirement. …”
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UNPACKING THE LEGACY OF MILITARY RULE: HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN NIGERIA (1985-2007) by OLUTAYO AYOBAMI AJAYI, OYEDOKUN MOJEED OYETUNJI

“…The study reveals how the military’s draconian laws, extrajudicial killings, forced disappearances and torture, created a culture of fear and silence, which continues to influence Nigeria’s human rights landscape. …”
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Politics, Incarceration, and Innocence in Harold Pinter’s One for the Road and Melih Cevdet Anday’s İçerdekiler by Murathan Gündoğdu

“…Influenced by different turning points in Turkish political history, both plays exhibit striking resemblances in depicting political oppression which includes physical and psychological torture, and the reality of incarceration that is experienced by innocent individuals who merely use their freedom of opinion and speech. …”
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From Ascetic Ideals to Honest Illusions: A Nietzschean Interpretation of Inception by Yonghwa Lee, Kyoung-Min Han

“…Mal's tragic death has turned Cobb into an ascetic idealist who paradoxically resorts to self-torture to alleviate his pain and suffering. Only when he sees the destructive power of his sense of guilt about Mal does he come to realize that what he really needs is not exactly the ability to distinguish the dream world from reality per se but the ability to make things seem and feel real – that is, in Nietzsche's words, honest illusions. …”
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« Un épagneul, une femme et un noyer, plus nous les battons, meilleurs ils sont » : Frances Power Cobbe, la féminité et l’altérité by Émilie Dardenne

“…It begins by explaining how the authoress of “Wife Torture in England” became the spokeswoman of beaten wives and it goes on to study her vision of femininity as conveyed through her discussion of violence, cruelty, appropriation, otherness and the fate of animals. …”
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Development and validation of a multidimensional, culturally and socially inclusive Child Resilience Questionnaire (parent/caregiver report) to measure factors that support resilie... by Deirdre Gartland, Elisha Riggs, Rebecca Giallo, Stephanie Janne Brown, Karen Glover, Kelsey Hegarty, Amanda Mitchell, Jane Yelland, Josef Szwarc, Sue Casey, Donna Weetra, Mardi Stowe, Sharon Mongta, Helen Herman, Selena White, Tanya Koolmatrie, Georgie Paxton

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After Abolition: Cugoano on ‘Lawful Servitude’ and the Injustice of Slavery by Johan Olsthoorn

“…After abolition, enslaved persons should continue to work for their ex-owners, “without torture or oppression” – until they completed seven years in total, nominally to compensate “for the expences attending their education” (98-99). …”
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Réconciliation nationale et compensation en Algérie et au Maroc by Yazid Ben Hounet

“…In Morocco, an arbitration committee (1999) and then the Equity and Reconciliation Commission (2004) were set up to turn the page on the period of the “years of lead” (reign of Hassan II) during which state crimes were committed (torture, imprisonment, assassinations, etc.). At the heart of these reconciliation mechanisms, we find one practice: (monetary) compensation for the crimes committed. …”
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Symbolic reparation, trauma and victimization: The response of the Chilean State to human rights violations (1973-1990) by Javiera Bustamante-Danilo, Alejandra Carreño-Calderón

“…Through a documental and ethnographic analysis of symbolic reparation and the norms associated with social and sanitary programs, this article explores how the Chilean State has adminis-tered human rights violations, torture and disappearances based on two principles: the narrative of victimization and the adoption of an individualized perspective to address trauma. …”
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The Impact of Islamic Law on Human Rights Abuses in Conflict Zones by Firas Meshhal Abduljabbar, Sundus Serhan Ahmed, Nibras Arif Abdulameer, Haider Mahmood Jawad, Kubeeva Zhanar Umirbekovna

“…Given the persistent human rights abuses in crisis areas, ranging from torture to extrajudicial killings, this study highlights the role of international conventions and treaties in curtailing such breaches. …”
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