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Author : Robert Hardin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781930200111
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Justifiable Revenge written by Robert Hardin and published by . This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Crime, Mystery, Drama."
Author : Bob Ferguson
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 : 164628089X
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (462 download)
Download or read book Justifiable Revenge written by Bob Ferguson and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2019-11-13 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flint Stone, a former United States Air Force special forces officer is dragged into the world of illegal drug dealers as he walks into a robbery in progress at a gas station and convenience store. There, in self-defense he kills a drug lord's son in a shootout. This sets in motion a series of events that changes Flint's life forever. In a matter of a few hours, Flint's family is murdered and his home and possessions destroyed. A large bounty is placed on his life by the drug lord. He then vows to avenge his family. With the help and understanding of friends he discovers methods being used by illegal drug manufacturers and distributors to move drugs to customers who then sell to pushers. Flint and FBI agent, Jessie Bell, use their skills to identify, locate and gather evidence against drug lords and the gangs of thugs and pushers. In the process Flint does things we all would like to do to crooks and scum-bags but are reluctant to do because of our respect for the laws that govern us. His goal is to locate and identify the big boss who has control of the system.
Author : Thane Rosenbaum
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226726614
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Payback written by Thane Rosenbaum and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-04-10 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Tom Lawler
Publisher : Cedar Forge Press
ISBN 13 : 9781943290543
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (95 download)
Download or read book Revenge Is Justified written by Tom Lawler and published by Cedar Forge Press. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is not your everyday occurrence to order a hit, but certainly nothing to really concern him. It is not unusual when no one can prove who committed the murders. It is highly unusual for average people to make their life's mission to destroy a mob boss. Kieran and Bevin's devastation turned into motivation, and their shattered love morphed into a focus as sharp as the tip of an ice pick and just as dangerous. Their plot was intended to be worse than death to the mob boss, who by the callous flick of his finger destroyed their lives. They couldn't"€"they wouldn't let Bonaventure do this ever again to someone else. Kieran and Bevin would risk everything to take Bonaventure's entire fortune, all the way to his last penny. They had to do what the Miami police department was unable to do for over 7 years"€"learn Bonaventure's drug smuggling method and destroy it, cutting off his biggest means of income. Then they had to empty his legal bank accounts and drain his stockpile of illegally obtained fortune. You will read of their ingenious schemes, but will Kieran and Bevin have enough clever tactics to pull them off before Bonaventure gets them first?
Author : Michael McCullough
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9780470262153
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (621 download)
Download or read book Beyond Revenge written by Michael McCullough and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-03-31 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is revenge such a pervasive and destructive problem? How can we create a future in which revenge is less common and forgiveness is more common? Psychologist Michael McCullough argues that the key to a more forgiving, less vengeful world is to understand the evolutionary forces that gave rise to these intimately human instincts and the social forces that activate them in human minds today. Drawing on exciting breakthroughs from the social and biological sciences, McCullough dispenses surprising and practical advice for making the world a more forgiving place. Michael E. McCullough (Miami, Florida), an internationally recognized expert on forgiveness and revenge, is a professor of psychology at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida, where he directs the Laboratory for Social and Clinical Psychology.
Author : L Lee Watkins
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781537320809
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Justifiable Revenge written by L Lee Watkins and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-09-05 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first book in The Street Justice Series continues the eye-for-an-eye tradition of The Dallas Kincade Series. In this novel, Sandy Raybuck seeks revenge for an evil deed perpetrated by a diabolical criminal. The primary action takes place in and around the Florida Keys. Dallas and the rest of the gang back Sandy in his quest.
Author : Mark Costanzo
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312179458
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (794 download)
Download or read book Just Revenge written by Mark Costanzo and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1997-10-15 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A professor of social psychology explores the history of execution in America, weighing its social costs, discussing its potential benefits and problems, and building a new model for understanding the politics behind the death penalty.
Author : Whitley R.P. Kaufman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400748450
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Honor and Revenge: A Theory of Punishment written by Whitley R.P. Kaufman and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-08-28 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Kit R. Christensen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316798968
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (167 download)
Download or read book Revenge and Social Conflict written by Kit R. Christensen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-15 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revenge has been a subject of concern in most intellectual traditions throughout history, and even when social norms regard it as permissible or even obligatory, it is commonly recognised as being more counterproductive than beneficial. In this book, Kit R. Christensen explores this provocative issue, offering an in-depth account of both the nature of revenge and the causes and consequences of the desire for this kind of retaliatory violence. He then develops a version of eudaimonistic consequentialism to argue that vengeance is never morally justified, and applies this to cases of intergroup violence where the lust for revenge against a vilified 'Them' is easily incited and often exploited. His study will interest a wide range of readers in moral philosophy as well as social philosophers, legal theorists, and social/behavioural scientists.
Author : James E. Fleming
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814760147
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)
Download or read book Passions and Emotions written by James E. Fleming and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the history of moral, political, and legal philosophy, many have portrayed passions and emotions as being opposed to reason and good judgment. At the same time, others have defended passions and emotions as tempering reason and enriching judgment, and there is mounting empirical evidence linking emotions to moral judgment. In Passions and Emotions, a group of prominent scholars in philosophy, political science, and law explore three clusters of issues: “Passion & Impartiality: Passions & Emotions in Moral Judgment”; “Passion & Motivation: Passions & Emotions in Democratic Politics”; and “Passion & Dispassion: Passions & Emotions in Legal Interpretation.” This timely, interdisciplinary volume examines many of the theoretical and practical legal, political, and moral issues raised by such questions.
Author : Jeffrie G. Murphy
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195178556
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)
Download or read book Getting Even written by Jeffrie G. Murphy and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2003 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this short book, the author proposes that vindictive emotions (anger, resentment, and the desire for revenge) actually deserve a more legitimate place in our emotional, social, and legal lives than we currently recognize, while forgiveness deserves to be more selectively granted.
Author : Peter A. French
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Virtues of Vengeance written by Peter A. French and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the course of his study of vengeance as a moral concept, French exposes important distinctions between types of moral theories (karmic and non-karmic) and between people who are morally handicapped and those who are morally challenged. He examines concepts relevant to vengeance, such as honor, moral authority, and evil, and issues such as the rationality of revenge and proportionality in punishment."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Clarence Valentine Boyer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Villain as Hero in Elizabethan Tragedy written by Clarence Valentine Boyer and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Preston
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9460918735
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (69 download)
Download or read book Disaster Education written by John Preston and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-09-11 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From ‘Duck and Cover’ in the 1950s, when American schoolchildren were instructed to hide beneath their desks in the event of nuclear attack to contemporary campaigns against pandemic flu, education campaigns have been used to prepare the general public for apocalyptic events. Governments have made use of various media from films, leaflets and television to the internet to inform, inspire and scare populations. Forms of disaster education also permeate popular culture with films and television programmes illustrating survival techniques from dealing with terrorist attacks in ‘24’ to thwarting zombie apocalypse in ‘The Walking Dead’ and ’28 Days Later’ . Using critical race theory and whiteness studies the book argues that information about disasters has always, tacitly or overtly, prioritised the survival of certain groups of citizens above others. Drawing on examples from the UK and the US, from past and contemporary disaster education and popular culture, it considers that rather than being kitsch, naïve and ephemeral, such campaigns are central to the way in which states define survival, life and death. The book will be of interest to educationalists, historians, sociologists and cultural theorists as well as those working in emergency planning, public health and communications.
Author : Carolyn Strange
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472519485
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)
Download or read book Honour, Violence and Emotions in History written by Carolyn Strange and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-04-10 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Honour, Violence and Emotions in History is the first book to draw on emerging cross-disciplinary scholarship on the study of emotions to analyse the history of honour and violence across a broad range of cultures and regions. Written by leading cultural and social historians from around the world, the book considers how emotions - particularly shame, anger, disgust, jealousy, despair and fear - have been provoked and expressed through culturally-embedded and historically specific understandings of honour. The collection explores a range of contexts, from 17th-century China to 18th-century South Africa and 20th-century Europe, offering a broad and wide-ranging analysis of the interrelationships between honour, violence and emotions in history. This ground-breaking book will be of interest to all researchers studying the relationship between violence and the emotions.
Author : Emilios A. Christodoulidis
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9780754673637
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (736 download)
Download or read book Public Law and Politics written by Emilios A. Christodoulidis and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a critical engagement with the function of public law and constitutionalism in its political dimensions, this volume brings together the reflections of three leading constitutionalists: Martin Loughlin, James Tully and Frank Michelman. Comprising three critical commentaries on each, it addresses the multiple ways in which public law is implicated in the logic of rule.
Author : Dean A. Kowalski
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031246853
Total Pages : 2127 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (312 download)
Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Popular Culture as Philosophy written by Dean A. Kowalski and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2024-04 with total page 2127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much philosophical work on pop culture apologises for its use; using popular culture is a necessary evil, something merely useful for reaching the masses with important philosophical arguments. But works of pop culture are important in their own right--they shape worldviews, inspire ideas, change minds. We wouldn't baulk at a book dedicated to examining the philosophy of The Great Gatsby or 1984--why aren't Star Trek and Superman fair game as well? After all, when produced, the former were considered pop culture just as much as the latter. This will be the first major reference work to right that wrong, gathering together entries on film, television, games, graphic novels and comedy, and officially recognizing the importance of the field. It will be the go-to resource for students and researchers in philosophy, culture, media and communications, English and history and will act as a springboard to introduce the reader to the other key literature in the field.
