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Monitoring Detention, Custody, Torture and Ill-treatment: A Practical Approach to Prevention and Documentation is a landmark practical guide designed to assist all those involved in monitoring detention conditions and the investigation and prevention of torture.

The prestigious global author team identify the medical, legal and professional frameworks and international instruments applicable to those detained, and highlight how torture or other cruel and inhuman or degrading treatments or punishments are identified, investigated and should be prevented.

Here you will find links to the many key documents, guidelines and legal frameworks to assist in the documentation and prevention of torture and ill-treatment. Also included in the bank of resources are links to relevant publications and societies.

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Editors

Dr Jason Payne-James LLM MSc FRCS FFFLM DFM, Consultant Forensic Physician; Honorary Senior Lecturer, Barts & The London School of Medicine & Dentistry; Director, Forensic Healthcare Services Ltd, UK

Dr Jonathan Beynon MB BS BSc MA, DTM&H, Independent consultant in the prevention of torture, monitoring conditions of detention and health in detention. Member of the Independent Medical Advisory Panel of the Council of Europe for advising on health in detention, UK

Professor Duarte Nuno Vieira MD, MSc, PhD, Head of the National Institute of Forensic Medicine; Chief Forensic Pathologist, Portugal; Full Professor of Forensic Medicine, Forensic Sciences, Ethics & Medical Law, University of Coimbra, Portugal