The culture of vengeance and the fate of American justice /

The culture of vengeance and the fate of American justice /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Aladjem, Terry Kenneth
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Subjects:
Political culture > United States.
Justice.
Rule of law > United States.
Criminal justice, Administration of > United States.
Punishment > United States.
Revenge > United States.
Online Access:Table of contents only
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Table of Contents:
  • Liberalism and the anger of punishment : the motivation to vengeance and myths of justice reconsidered
  • Violence, vengeance, and the rudiments of American theodicy
  • The nature of vengeance : memory, self-deception, and the movement from terror to pity
  • Revenge & the fallibility of the state : the problem of vengeance and democratic punishment revisited or how America should punish.