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Como parte del proceso de envío, los autores/as están obligados a comprobar que su envío cumpla todos los elementos que se muestran a continuación. Se devolverán a los autores/as aquellos envíos que no cumplan estas directrices.Research and Scientific articles
- Research and scientific articles include an abstract, introduction, methods, results and discussion.
Review articles
- Review articles provide a critical survey and examination of the literature of a particular subject of research which generally consist of Abstract, Introduction (including explanations of conflicts in the literature, and analysis of the field), Methods, Results, Conclusions and Outlook (including limitations of current knowledge and future directions to be pursued in research).
Case reports
- The Torture Journal welcomes the submission of case reports with respect to unusual cases for any specific reason (either social, nosological, clinical or therapeutic).
Perspectives
- A personal view or reflection in a clear narrative voice can also be submitted to the journal. It is intended that this section can add a more qualitative perspective to other scientific articles. Perspectives from torture survivors or field workers are particularly encouraged.
Research news
- Please let us know at publications@irct.org if there is something you believe is newsworthy for the Torture Journal. Examples include items which may be of use or interest to the wider sector, such as key or unusual papers published in another journal that are worthy of wider dissemination, or, literature that your organisation has produced
Statements
- Official declarations made by professional bodies or committees which may be of value or interest to the readers related to the torture field.
Book and media reviews
- Readers are welcome to contribute a book, film, TV, exhibition, or web review.
Debate and Comment
- Debates and comments are commissioned largely to contextualise a review or scientific paper published in the same issue.
Letter to the Editor
- Letters can be written in response to previous content published in the Torture Journal or be of general interest.
Special section: torture in prisons
This call for papers aims to examine prisons and other detention facilities (immigration detention centres, juvenile detention centres, etc) as torturing environments
Torture Journal encourages authors to submit papers with a psychological, medical or legal orientation, particularly those that are interdisciplinary with other fields of knowledge. We welcome contributions related (but not limited) to:
- Conditions of detention as environments of torture: overcrowding, food, inhuman treatment, etc.
- Carceral geographies: emotional cartographies in detention spaces.
- Impacts of isolation and closed regime units. Alternatives.
- Use of mechanical restraints, chemical restraints and other methods of control and coercion. Intervention programs to abolish restraints.
- Challenges of forensic documentation in prisons and other closed institutions.
- Studies on reprisals against persons deprived of their liberty following monitoring visits to investigate allegations of torture.
- Violent institutional cultures. Generating and perpetuating factors, and intervention programmes on violent milieus.
- Violence by other inmates and staff. Methods of detection and prevention.
- Effectiveness of torture prevention measures: videotaping, civil-society monitoring, medical documentation of injuries and others
- Sexual torture and abuse in closed institutions.
- Short or adapted forms of the Istanbul Protocol for documenting torture during monitoring visits or short-time evaluations in closed institutions.
- Self-harm and suicide. Self-inflicted violence in closed institutions.
- Severe Mental Illness and Torture in closed institutions.
- Legal contours of torture in detention centres: legal reviews with a special focus on the intentionality and purpose criteria
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