Terry K. Aladjem

The Culture of Vengeance and the Fate of American Justice

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

America is driven by vengeance in Aladjem's timely analysis, and the fate of democratic justice hangs in the balance.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. April 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9780521713863
• ISBN-10: 0521713862
• Artikelnr.: 25006908

Autorenporträt

Terry Aladjem is a lecturer in Social Studies, and Associate Director of the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning at Harvard University.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Liberalism and the Anger of Punishment: The Motivation to Vengeance
and Myths of Justice Reconsidered; Part II. Violence, Vengeance and the
Rudiments of American Theodicy; Part III. The Nature of Vengeance: Memory,
Self-Deception and the Movement from Terror to Pity; Part IV. Revenge and
the Fallibility of the State: The Problem of Vengeance and Democratic
Punishment Revisited or How America Should Punish.