The culture of vengeance and the fate of American justice /
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Cambridge University Press,
2008
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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.