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A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on March 13, 2022. The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that torture (example pictured) causes a higher risk of trauma than any other known human experience?
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Lokaneeta, Jinee (2011). Transnational Torture: Law, Violence, and State Power in the United States and India. NYU Press. ISBN 978-0-8147-5280-7.
Haritos-Fatouros, Mika (2003). The Psychological Origins of Institutionalized Torture. Psychology Press. ISBN 978-0-415-28276-5.
Levinson, Sanford, ed. (2006). Torture: A Collection. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-530646-0.
Parry, John T. (2011). Understanding Torture: Law, Violence, and Political Identity. University of Michigan Press. ISBN 978-0-472-02178-9.
Wisnewski, J. Jeremy; Emerick, R. D. (2009). The Ethics of Torture. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4411-9798-6.
Conrad, Courtenay Ryals; Moore, Will H. (2010). "What Stops the Torture?". American Journal of Political Science. 54 (2): 459–476. doi:10.1111/j.1540-5907.2010.00441.x.
Wisnewski, J. Jeremy (2019). "Human Rights: Torture". International Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism. Springer. pp. 245–258. ISBN 978-981-10-4181-5.
Nowak, Manfred (2018). Torture: An Expert's Confrontation with an Everyday Evil. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 978-0-8122-4991-0.

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