Author: Jack Caithness
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595370772
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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The last remark chilled Jill to the bone. Her mind was racing. What did she have here? It was a confession from a killer. The man she once thought she was in love with was a murderer. This was no protector of the public; he was as bad as her uncle. If he was telling her the truth, it must mean she was in danger again...no way Jack. She reached slowly for her purse on the seat beside her. She fumbled with the clasp to get to her revolver. Her hand closed on the metal. Slowly she pulled the weapon free, put it level under the table, and pulled the trigger.
Author: William Wright
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780738800714
Category : Revenge
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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When Kathryn Thomas's parents are killed in an auto accident, she comes to live with her aunt, surgeon Ginny Tole. They become inseparable companions until the high school senior is brutally raped and murdered. The criminals are quickly apprehended, but Ginny's only consolation is the knowledge that they will be punished. A judicial mistake frees the murderers. It seems there is no remedy for this senseless crime, but Ginny Tole finds she cannot rest until the criminals are off the streets. What happens when a single woman with no experience in the world of violence decides that justice cannot be denied?
Author: Thane Rosenbaum
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226726614
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 325
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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.
Author: Joan Marie Verba
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781936881239
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 30
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Author: Audrey Wells
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030875520
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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Forgiveness is important in international politics because it can save thousands of lives. Its opposite, vengefulness, has played a significant part in various wars of the 20th and 21st centuries. These conflicts are examined in this book, showing how forgiveness could have avoided the tremendous ensuing bloodshed. Despite its importance, in the context of international relations, forgiveness as a means of preventing the outbreak of war (as opposed to facilitating reconciliation after conflicts) has largely been neglected as a subject of study. Indeed, it has also been ignored by politicians, as a result of which there are few examples of forgiveness to study compared with those of revenge. This book reflects this reality, but also seeks to change it by raising public awareness of the importance of forgiveness in international affairs and the need to demand that political leaders explore this avenue. The book also provides a succinct, informative guide to the background of today’s international affairs. Each chapter can be read independently and highlights either forgiveness in action or the futility and loss of life caused by vengefulness, demonstrating where and how forgiveness could have made a dramatic difference.
Author: S. Smith
Publisher: Gatekeeper Press
ISBN: 1642375543
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148
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This story is historical fiction about the city of Waco, Texas, Baylor University, and some of the Baptists and folks of the town during the latter years of the 19th Century. Most of the characters are loosely based on real people that lived at the time but are exaggerated and extrapolated to develop the story. Not everything was peaceful serenity in this small town located on the Brazos River on the cusp of the 20th Century. People held grudges and had axes to grind for real or perceived wrongdoings between such characters as William Cowper Brann a semi-famous local newspaper writer, the Carroll Brothers who ran the Baptist religion in the state, and the mayor of Waco, J.W. Riggins. Red, the primary narrator falls in love with Inez Brann, the daughter of William Cowper Brann, the city’s primary antagonist of the story. Red is heartbroken at their truncated relationship. As the story progresses, the history of the city including the devastating F5 tornado that struck the city in 1953, plays a critical part in a love story and quite possibly subsequent tragedies that have repeatedly struck the city over the years.
Author: Johan Ludvig Runeberg
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Finnish poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 130
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Author: Whitley R.P. Kaufman
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400748450
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 209
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This book addresses the problem of justifying the institution of criminal punishment. It examines the “paradox of retribution”: the fact that we cannot seem to reject the intuition that punishment is morally required, and yet we cannot (even after two thousand years of philosophical debate) find a morally legitimate basis for inflicting harm on wrongdoers. The book comes at a time when a new “abolitionist” movement has arisen, a movement that argues that we should give up the search for justification and accept that punishment is morally unjustifiable and should be discontinued immediately. This book, however, proposes a new approach to the retributive theory of punishment, arguing that it should be understood in its traditional formulation that has been long forgotten or dismissed: that punishment is essentially a defense of the honor of the victim. Properly understood, this can give us the possibility of a legitimate moral justification for the institution of punishment.
Author: Jim Lusby
Publisher: Orion
ISBN: 0575071877
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 222
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On the first day of the new Millennium the body of a 97-year-old woman is found strangled and mutilated in her ramshackle house in a remote seaside village in west Cork. The local police are inclined to pin it on a pair of travellers who have set up camp in the neighbourhood, after drug money. McCadden, still new in his job on the all-Ireland murder squad, is not so sure. The viciousness of the attack seems to suggest something much deeper. What has this woman done in her 97 years to inspire such rage? The answer goes back almost to the beginning of the twentieth century.
Author: Michelle Reid
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1488031495
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 163
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Re-discover this passionate Harlequin Presents from Michelle Reid Catherine knows Vito Giordani, her soon-to-be ex-husband, has never forgiven her forending their marriage and leaving Italy with their child. Now to reassure her son, shemust confront the Italian tycoon about his rumored plans to remarry. But Vito seizes theadvantage, demanding that Catherine returns to Maples to resume her role as wife andmother. It's Vito's chance for the revenge he's been waiting for. His plan will see hisson back under his roof…and his wife back in his bed! Originally published in 2000
