Vengeance and Justice

Vengeance and Justice
Author: Edward L. Ayers
Publsiher: Oxford University Press on Demand
Total Pages: 353
Release: 1986
Genre: History
ISBN: 0195039882

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Exploring the major elements of southern crime and punishment at a time that saw the formation of the fundamental patterns of class and race, Ayers studies the inner workings of the police, prison, and judicial systems, and the nature of crime.

The Closing of the Liberal Mind

The Closing of the Liberal Mind
Author: Kim R. Holmes
Publsiher: Encounter Books
Total Pages: 135
Release: 2017-12-12
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781594039560

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A former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State and currently Acting Senior Vice President for Research at The Heritage Foundation, Kim R. Holmes surveys the state of liberalism in America today and finds that it is becoming its opposite—illiberalism—abandoning the precepts of open-mindedness and respect for individual rights, liberties, and the rule of law upon which the country was founded, and becoming instead an intolerant, rigidly dogmatic ideology that abhors dissent and stifles free speech. Tracing the new illiberalism historically to the radical Enlightenment, a movement that rejected the classic liberal ideas of the moderate Enlightenment that were prominent in the American Founding, Holmes argues that today’s liberalism has forsaken its American roots, incorporating instead the authoritarian, anti-clerical, and anti-capitalist prejudices of the radical and largely European Left. The result is a closing of the American liberal mind. Where once freedom of speech and expression were sacrosanct, today liberalism employs speech codes, trigger warnings, boycotts, and shaming rituals to stifle freedom of thought, expression, and action. It is no longer appropriate to call it liberalism at all, but illiberalism—a set of ideas in politics, government, and popular culture that increasingly reflects authoritarian and even anti-democratic values, and which is devising new strategies of exclusiveness to eliminate certain ideas and people from the political process. Although illiberalism has always been a temptation for American liberals, lurking in the radical fringes of the Left, it is today the dominant ideology of progressive liberal circles. This makes it a new danger not only to the once venerable tradition of liberalism, but to the American nation itself, which needs a viable liberal tradition that pursues social and economic equality while respecting individual liberties.

No Room for Vengeance

No Room for Vengeance
Author: Victoria Ruvolo,Robert Goldman
Publsiher: No Vengeance Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011-11
Genre: Assault and battery
ISBN: 0983627185

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Presents the story of Victoria Ruvolo, who was severely injured by a teenage boy who hurled a frozen turkey through her windshield and who forgave her assailant, recommending leniency during his sentencing and setting an example for forgiveness and healing.

The Culture of Vengeance and the Fate of American Justice

The Culture of Vengeance and the Fate of American Justice
Author: Terry K. Aladjem
Publsiher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2008-01-14
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9781139469173

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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.

Payback

Payback
Author: Thane Rosenbaum
Publsiher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2013-04-10
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780226726618

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We call it justice—the assassination of Osama bin Laden, the incarceration of corrupt politicians or financiers like Rod Blagojevich and Bernard Madoff, and the climactic slaying of cinema-screen villains by superheroes. But could we not also call it revenge? We are told that revenge is uncivilized and immoral, an impulse that individuals and societies should actively repress and replace with the order and codes of courtroom justice. What, if anything, distinguishes punishment at the hands of the government from a victim’s individual desire for retribution? Are vengeance and justice really so very different? No, answers legal scholar and novelist Thane Rosenbaum in Payback: The Case for Revenge—revenge is, in fact, indistinguishable from justice. Revenge, Rosenbaum argues, is not the problem. It is, in fact, a perfectly healthy emotion. Instead, the problem is the inadequacy of lawful outlets through which to express it. He mounts a case for legal systems to punish the guilty commensurate with their crimes as part of a societal moral duty to satisfy the needs of victims to feel avenged. Indeed, the legal system would better serve the public if it gave victims the sense that vengeance was being done on their behalf. Drawing on a wide range of support, from recent studies in behavioral psychology and neuroeconomics, to stories of vengeance and justice denied, to revenge practices from around the world, to the way in which revenge tales have permeated popular culture—including Hamlet, The Godfather, and Braveheart—Rosenbaum demonstrates that vengeance needs to be more openly and honestly discussed and lawfully practiced. Fiercely argued and highly engaging, Payback is a provocative and eye-opening cultural tour of revenge and its rewards—from Shakespeare to The Sopranos. It liberates revenge from its social stigma and proves that vengeance is indeed ours, a perfectly human and acceptable response to moral injury. Rosenbaum deftly persuades us to reconsider a misunderstood subject and, along the way, reinvigorates the debate on the shape of justice in the modern world.

Getting Even

Getting Even
Author: Charles K. B. Barton
Publsiher: Open Court Publishing
Total Pages: 208
Release: 1999
Genre: Law
ISBN: STANFORD:36105060437758

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"In Getting Even, Charles Barton contends that revenge can be a form of justice that is constructive and healing for our society. Our current judiciary system, he explains, denies both victims and the accused an active role in the legal proceedings and resolution of their cases, reducing them to bystanders in what is essentially their own conflict. Barton does not argue for an individual's right to take the law into his own hands, but does show that the courts should recognize the revenge motive as legitimate and rational within the rules of justice."--pub. desc.

Vengeance

Vengeance
Author: Pietro Marongiu,Graeme R. Newman
Publsiher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Total Pages: 190
Release: 1987
Genre: Law
ISBN: UOM:39015046818129

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Vengeance and Justice

Vengeance and Justice
Author: Edward L. Ayers
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 353
Release: 1986
Genre: Crime
ISBN: OCLC:1036903653

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