Getting Even: Revenge as a Form of Justice

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Open Court Publishing, 1999 - 180 páginas
"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.

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Paradigms of Justice
1
Pious Myths about Revenge
9
Punishment and Revenge
21
Rationality and Revenge
32
Retribution and Justice
42
Retribution and Revenge
56
Its Nature and Definition
70
A Defense of Moral Retributivism
85
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92
Victim Justice and Institutionalized Empowerment
101
The Primacy of Empowerment
122
Implications for Policy and Practice
142
Notes Bibliography Index
145
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