Table of contents for The culture of vengeance and the fate of American justice / Terry Kenneth Aladjem.
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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.
Library of Congress subject headings for this publication:
Political culture -- United States.
Justice.
Rule of law -- United States.
Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States.
Punishment -- United States.
Revenge -- United States.