Introduction: the concept of torture prevention and its application FURTHER READING UN SPT, The approach of the Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture to the concept of prevention of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment under the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, UN Doc. CAT/ OP/12/6, 30 December 2010. Richard Carver and Lisa Handley, Does Torture Prevention Work?, Liverpool University Press, 2016. APT, Yes, Torture Prevention Works: Insights from a global research study on 30 years of torture prevention (2016) Committee against Torture, General comment No. 3: Implementation of article 14 by States parties, CAT/C/GC/3, 12 December 2012. Committee against Torture, General comment No. 2, Implementation of article 2 by States Parties, CAT/C/GC/2, 24 January 2008. 19