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1 online resource (xx, 246 pages) |
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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 |
| Summary |
America is driven by vengeance in Terry Aladjem's provocative account - a reactive, public anger that is a threat to democratic justice itself. From the return of the death penalty to the wars on terror and in Iraq, Americans demand retribution and moral certainty; they assert the 'rights of victims' and make pronouncements against 'evil'. Yet for Aladjem this dangerously authoritarian turn has its origins in the tradition of liberal justice itself - in theories of punishment that justify inflicting pain and in the punitive practices that result. Exploring vengeance as the defining problem of our time, Aladjem returns to the theories of Locke, Hegel and Mill. He engages the ancient Greeks, Nietzsche, Paine and Foucault to challenge liberal assumptions about punishment. He interrogates American law, capital punishment and images of justice in the media. He envisions a democratic justice that is better able to contain its vengeance |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-240) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| SUBJECT |
Universidad Sergio Arboleda gnd |
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Political culture -- United States
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Justice.
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Rule of law -- United States
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Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States.
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Punishment -- United States
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Revenge -- United States
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Penology.
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Criminal justice, Administration of
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Justice
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Political culture
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Punishment
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Revenge
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Rule of law
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Strafjustiz
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Rache
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United States
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USA
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780511379314 |
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0511379315 |
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9780511376627 |
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0511375093 |
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9780511375095 |
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