This book explores and evaluates the interpretive scope of the prohibition of degrading treatment in order to provide analytical tools to advance the application of the right not to be subjected to cruel or inhuman treatment or punishment in international, regional and domestic human rights law.

Elaine Webster is a lecturer in law at the University of Strathclyde, UK.

Preface and acknowledgements

Additional sources

Tables of cases

Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION

Chapter 2 DEGRADING TREATMENT WITHIN ARTICLE 3

Chapter 3 FRAMING THE CONCEPTUAL BOUNDARIES OF DEGRADING TREATMENT

Chapter 4 UNDERSTANDING THE BENCHMARKS OF DEGRADATION

Chapter 5 THE MEANING OF 'TREATMENT'

Chapter 6 THE ENDS OF ARTICLE 3: THE PROTECTION OF HUMAN DIGNITY AND THE LIMITS OF STATE RESPONSIBILITY

Chapter 7 FROM DEGRADING TREATMENT TO TORTURE, CRUEL AND INHUMAN TREATMENT

Chapter 8 CONCLUSION

Index