Inhuman States: Imprisonment, Detention and Torture in Europe TodayISBN: 978-0-7456-1722-0
Paperback
152 pages
November 1996, Polity
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Inhuman States is a gripping account of the seamy side of
Europe, of those 'social dustbins' that most people tend to ignore
and of the practices - including torture - which take place within
them. But it is also a book about some general concepts - what is
'human'? What should 'inhuman' or 'degrading' mean? Should general
standards be uniformly applied to countries with diverse
traditions, legal systems and conditions of life?
This book is also a forceful plea for a better and more civilized
Europe. Cassese argues that Europe should be unified not only in
the field of markets, banks, lawyers, and commerce: an effort
should also be made to set out and implement at least some common
European standards of justice with regard to those places of
detention where each country relegates its misfits, deviants and
all those who are thought to imperil the social fabric.