ISBN: 0198714203 9780198714200

Category: Law / International

Page count: 339

Torture and Moral Integrity is about the wrongness of torture and the nature of morality. It discusses multiple types of torture with great philosophical acuity and it seeks to explain why interrogational torture and other types of torture are always and everywhere morally wrong. At the same time, it rigorously plumbs the general structure of morality and the intricacies of moral conflicts and it probes some of the chief grounds for the moral illegitimacy of various modes of UK university. His plans have been used to manage a wide range of emergencies including the Morecombe Bay cockling disaster of 2004 and the 2007 Cumbria Virgin train crash. Ian Dickinson is the former Deputy Chief Constable of Lothian and Borders Police, where he served at the rank of chief officer for more than 20 years. In 2002 he was responsible for Specialist Operations, including the planning of the G8 summit, the Edinburgh Tattoo, Hogmanay, and civil nuclear resilience issues .John Williamson is founder and ex-Chairman of the Institute of Fire Safety Managers. A former Assistant Chief Fire Officer, he has commanded many major incidents, such as the Piper Alpha platform disaster, and is also a forensic fire investigator. Professor Keith Still is a published author specialising in crowd risk analysis, with over 25 years' experience of major events. His projects have included the royal wedding in 2011, the Sydney Olympics in 2000 and the London Olympics torture, and his approach to torture is a natural outgrowth of those philosophical reflections.