BEYOND PHYSICAL INTEGRITY

Cope et al. outline how political scientists could draw on developments in law and insights from history to take up a set of thus-far under-explored questions. While political science has made important advances in studying human rights, the field's focus has been rather narrow. The bulk of human rights scholarship--especially recent empirical scholarship--has focused on respect for physical integrity rights: government-imposed torture, extrajudicial killing, unjust imprisonment, and other violations of bodily integrity.