Topic · Torture, Ethics, and Law
Most cited papers in Torture, Ethics, and Law
What are the most cited papers in Torture, Ethics, and Law?
The most cited paper in Torture, Ethics, and Law is "Moral injury and moral repair in war veterans: A preliminary model and intervention strategy" (Brett T. Litz, Nathan R. Stein, Eileen M. Delaney et al., 2009), with 2,712 citations. Next come "Imaginary Relish and Exquisite Torture: The Elaborated Intrusion Theory of Desire." (958) and "The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide, by Robert Jay Lifton" (798).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 158 citations is listed.
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|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Moral injury and moral repair in war veterans: A preliminary model and intervention strategy Brett T. Litz, Nathan R. Stein, Eileen M. Delaney et al. · Clinical Psychology Review | 30 Jul 2009 | 2,712 |
| 2 | Imaginary Relish and Exquisite Torture: The Elaborated Intrusion Theory of Desire. David John Kavanagh, Jackie Andrade, Jon May · Psychological Review | 22 Mar 2005 | 958 |
| 3 | The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide, by Robert Jay Lifton Leo Kuper · Political Science Quarterly | 1987 | 798 |
| 4 | Moral Injury: An Integrative Review Brandon J. Griffin, Natalie Purcell, Kristine M. Burkman et al. · Journal of Traumatic Stress | 28 Jan 2019 | 753 |
| 5 | Culture of Terror—Space of Death. Roger Casement's Putumayo Report and the Explanation of Torture Michael Taussig · Comparative Studies in Society and History | Jul 1984 | 678 |
| 6 | Fifty Years Later: The Significance of the Nuremberg Code Evelyne Shuster · New England Journal of Medicine | 13 Nov 1997 | 673 |
| 7 | Doctors, Borders, and Life in Crisis Peter Redfield · Cultural Anthropology | 5 Jul 2005 | 536 |
| 8 | A National Survey of Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia in the United States Diane E. Meier, Carol‐Ann Emmons, Sylvan R. Wallenstein et al. · New England Journal of Medicine | 23 Apr 1998 | 495 |
| 9 | Authoritarianism, Threat, and Americans’ Support for the War on Terror Marc J. Hetherington, Elizabeth Suhay · American Journal of Political Science | 27 Apr 2011 | 491 |
| 10 | An exploration of the viability and usefulness of the construct of moral injury in war veterans. Kent D. Drescher, David W. Foy, Caroline M. Kelly et al. · Traumatology An International Journal | Mar 2011 | 489 |
| 11 | Psychological sequelae of torture and organised violence suffered by refugees from Iraq Caroline Gorst‐Unsworth, EVA GOLDENBERG · The British Journal of Psychiatry | 1998 | 475 |
| 12 | The Curious Eclipse of Prison Ethnography in the Age of Mass Incarceration Loic J. D. Wacquant · Ethnography | Dec 2002 | 474 |
| 13 | Sentencing under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines: Effects of Defendant Characteristics, Guilty Pleas, and Departures on Sentence Outcomes for Drug Offenses, 1991–1992 Celesta A. Albonetti · Law & Society Review | 1997 | 464 |
| 14 | Informed consent in human experimentation before the Nuremberg code Jochen Vollmann, Rolf Winau · BMJ | 7 Dec 1996 | 452 |
| 15 | Moral injury in healthcare professionals: A scoping review and discussion Anto Čartolovni, Minna Stolt, P. Anne Scott et al. · Nursing Ethics | 11 Jan 2021 | 422 |
| 16 | Inside the Interrogation Room Richard A. Leo · The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (1973-) | 1996 | 420 |
| 17 | Crimes of Obedience: Toward a Social Psychology of Authority and Responsibility Michael Kenneth Isenman, Herbert C. Kelman, V. Lee Hamilton · Michigan Law Review | May 1990 | 417 |
| 18 | Proportionality in the Morality of War Thomas Hurka · Philosophy & Public Affairs | 16 Dec 2004 | 405 |
| 19 | When 'Do No Harm' Is Not Enough: The Ethics of Research with Refugees and Other Vulnerable Groups Richard Hugman, Eileen Pittaway, Luigi Bartolomei · The British Journal of Social Work | Mar 2011 | 389 |
| 20 | After Snowden: Rethinking the Impact of Surveillance Zygmunt Bauman, Didier Bigo, Paulo Luiz Moreaux Lavigne Esteves et al. · International Political Sociology | 29 May 2014 | 382 |
| 21 | Killing the Innocent in Self‐Defense Michael Otsuka · Philosophy & Public Affairs | 1994 | 366 |
| 22 | Where asylum-seekers wait: feminist counter-topographies of sites between states Alison Mountz · Gender Place & Culture | 19 May 2011 | 354 |
| 23 | Saving PTSD from itself in DSM-V Robert L. Spitzer, Michael B. First, Jerome C. Wakefield · Journal of Anxiety Disorders | 2 Dec 2006 | 354 |
| 24 | The black flag: guantánamo bay and the space of exception Derek Gregory · Geografiska Annaler Series B Human Geography | Dec 2006 | 352 |
| 25 | The right to lie: Kant on dealing with evil Christine M. Korsgaard · Cambridge University Press eBooks | 28 Jul 1996 | 340 |
| 26 | Does Gender Modify the Effects of Race–ethnicity on Criminal Sanctioning? Sentences for Male and Female White, Black, and Hispanic Defendants Darrell J. Steffensmeier, Stephen Demuth · Journal of Quantitative Criminology | 6 Jul 2006 | 322 |
| 27 | Consensus statement on posttraumatic stress disorder from the International Consensus Group on Depression and Anxiety. J.C. Ballenger, J R Davidson, Yves Lecrubier et al. · PubMed | 2000 | 317 |
| 28 | Consent’s Revenge Audra Simpson · Cultural Anthropology | 9 Aug 2016 | 316 |
| 29 | A Review of Research on Moral Injury in Combat Veterans Sheila B. Frankfurt, Patricia A. Frazier · Military Psychology | 24 May 2016 | 306 |
| 30 | Child victims, child witnesses: Understanding and improving testimony Warren Amye R. · Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology | Jul 1994 | 293 |
| 31 | MEDICINE, TORTURE, AND THE UNITED NATIONS Zbigniew Bankowski · The Lancet | 1982 | 288 |
| 32 | Initial Psychometric Evaluation of the Moral Injury Questionnaire—Military Version Joseph M. Currier, Jason M. Holland, Kent D. Drescher et al. · Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy | 10 Sep 2013 | 288 |
| 33 | Truth-Telling as Talking Cure? Insecurity and Retraumatization in the Rwandan Gacaca Courts Karen Brounéus · Security Dialogue | 10 Jan 2008 | 282 |
| 34 | Making Whole What Has Been Smashed: On Reparations Politics Stanley Cohen · Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews | Nov 2006 | 273 |
| 35 | Posttraumatic Shame and Guilt John P. Wilson, Boris Drožđek, Silvana Turkovic · Trauma Violence & Abuse | 13 Mar 2006 | 273 |
| 36 | Targeted Killing of Suspected Terrorists: Extra-Judicial Executions or Legitimate Means of Defence? David Kretzmer · European Journal of International Law | Apr 2005 | 272 |
| 37 | The Vengeance Scale: Development of a measure of attitudes toward revenge. Noreen Stuckless, Richard E. Goranson · Journal of social behavior and personality | 1992 | 269 |
| 38 | Somali and Oromo Refugees: Correlates of Torture and Trauma History James M. Jaranson, James Neal Butcher, Linda L. Halcón et al. · American Journal of Public Health | Apr 2004 | 268 |
| 39 | The Nuremberg Code and the Nuremberg Trial Jay Katz · JAMA | 27 Nov 1996 | 268 |
| 40 | The Case for Ethical Autonomy in Unmanned Systems Ronald C. Arkin · Journal of Military Ethics | Dec 2010 | 260 |
| 41 | Human Rights and Crimes of The State: The Culture of Denial Stanley Cohen · Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology | Dec 1993 | 259 |
| 42 | Moral Predators: The Duty to Employ Uninhabited Aerial Vehicles Bradley Jay Strawser · Journal of Military Ethics | Dec 2010 | 257 |
| 43 | Becoming Sinners: Christianity and Moral Torment in a Papua New Guinea Society Jerry K. Jacka · Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews | Sep 2005 | 256 |
| 44 | International criminal law William A. Schabas · Cambridge University Press eBooks | 5 Sep 2002 | 252 |
| 45 | When the Patient Reports Atrocities Sarah A. Haley · Archives of General Psychiatry | Feb 1974 | 251 |
| 46 | Psychological preparedness for trauma as a protective factor in survivors of torture Mahmut Başoğlu, Susan Mineka, Murat Paker et al. · Psychological Medicine | Nov 1997 | 251 |
| 47 | Wrongful Life and the Counterfactual Element in Harming Joël Feinberg · Social Philosophy and Policy | 1986 | 249 |
| 48 | Responsibility as Answerability Angela Moriah Smith · Inquiry | 20 Jan 2015 | 243 |
| 49 | The Role of Moral Disengagement in the Execution Process. Michael J. Osofsky, Albert Bandura, Philip G. Zimbardo · Law and Human Behavior | Aug 2005 | 241 |
| 50 | Victimology in transitional justice: Victimhood, innocence and hierarchy Kieran McEvoy, Kirsten McConnachie · European Journal of Criminology | Sep 2012 | 236 |
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