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How someone becomes a torturer

  • Written by Christopher Justin Einolf, Associate Professor of Sociology, Northern Illinois University
How someone becomes a torturerAt the Amna Suraka museum in Iraq, exhibits show the torture that was carried out in the cells.Hélène Veilleux/Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA

Every day, thousands of people are tortured in police stations, security offices and prisons around the world. Human rights organizations protest torture and advocate for survivors, but neither they nor...

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