The culture of vengeance and the fate of American justice
By: Terry Kenneth Aladjem.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780521886246; 9780521713863
Subjects: Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States; Punishment -- United States; Revenge -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Liberalism and the anger of punishment : the motivation to vengeance and myths of justice reconsidered; title: Violence, vengeance, and the rudiments of American theodicy; title: The nature of vengeance : memory, self-deception, and the movement from terror to pity; title: Revenge & the fallibility of the state : the problem of vengeance and democratic punishment revisited or how America should punish.