Torture and Torturous Violence

Victoria Canning is Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of Bristol. She is currently Head of the Centre for the Study of Poverty and Social Justice, Associate Director in Border Criminologies at Oxford University, and trustee of Statewatch. Victoria has published and edited various books and articles, including Gendered Harm and Structural Violence in the British Asylum System (2017), From Social Harm to Zemiology (2021, with Steve Tombs) and Stealing Time: Migration, Temporalities and State Violence (2021, with Monish Bhatia). She is cocreator of the Right to Remain Asylum Navigation Board (with Lisa Matthews) and has acted as academic consultant on the BAFTA award-winning series Exodus: Our Journey to Europe.

“This book would appeal not only to critical criminologists, but also to any practitioner or scholar working on the nexus of violence and law, state crime, psychology, anthropology, feminism or migration. Canning's insights are freshly and searingly written.” Theoretical Criminology

• Introduction: Why ‘Torture and Torturous Violence’? 1. Outlining the Definitional Boundaries of ‘Torture’2. ‘Wandering Throughout Lives’: Outlining Forms and Impacts of Torture3. ‘I Wouldn’t Call It Torture’: Conceptualising Torturous Violence 4. Sexualised Torture and Sexually Torturous Violence 5. Experiential Epistemologies: Embedding the Lived Experience of Women Survivors 6. Unsilencing7. Addressing and Responding to Torture and Torturous Violence