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Abstract
This paper suggests that extant theories used to explain how people come to torture are too narrowly drawn, constraining effective social work policy and practice. Several of these theories are evaluated, highlighting their limitations, followed by a proposal to shift critical analysis of torture behavior using a framework integrating Fiske's relational models theory and Bandura's model of moral disengagement. These combined models can expand on existing explanatory theories and, by extension, move cross-cultural social work deeper into the heart of historical and political processes, challenging the profession to meet its ethic of responsiveness to social injustice and suffering in a world of globally complex culture-powered relations.