The Culture of Vengeance and the Fate of American Justice - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Culture of Vengeance and the Fate of American Justice write by Terry Kenneth Aladjem. This book was released on 2014-05-14. The Culture of Vengeance and the Fate of American Justice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. America is driven by vengeance in Terry Aladjem's provocative account - a reactive, public anger that is a threat to democratic justice itself. From the return of the death penalty to the wars on terror and in Iraq, Americans demand retribution and moral certainty; they assert the 'rights of victims' and make pronouncements against 'evil'. Yet for Aladjem this dangerously authoritarian turn has its origins in the tradition of liberal justice itself - in theories of punishment that justify inflicting pain and in the punitive practices that result. Exploring vengeance as the defining problem of our time, Aladjem returns to the theories of Locke, Hegel and Mill. He engages the ancient Greeks, Nietzsche, Paine and Foucault to challenge liberal assumptions about punishment. He interrogates American law, capital punishment and images of justice in the media. He envisions a democratic justice that is better able to contain its vengeance.
The Culture of Vengeance and the Fate of American Justice
The Culture of Vengeance and the Fate of American Justice - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Culture of Vengeance and the Fate of American Justice write by Terry K. Aladjem. This book was released on 2008-01-14. The Culture of Vengeance and the Fate of American Justice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. America is driven by vengeance in Terry Aladjem's provocative account – a reactive, public anger that is a threat to democratic justice itself. From the return of the death penalty to the wars on terror and in Iraq, Americans demand retribution and moral certainty; they assert the 'rights of victims' and make pronouncements against 'evil'. Yet for Aladjem this dangerously authoritarian turn has its origins in the tradition of liberal justice itself – in theories of punishment that justify inflicting pain and in the punitive practices that result. Exploring vengeance as the defining problem of our time, Aladjem returns to the theories of Locke, Hegel and Mill. He engages the ancient Greeks, Nietzsche, Paine and Foucault to challenge liberal assumptions about punishment. He interrogates American law, capital punishment and images of justice in the media. He envisions a democratic justice that is better able to contain its vengeance.
Gunslinging justice
Gunslinging justice - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gunslinging justice write by Justin A. Joyce. This book was released on 2018-08-20. Gunslinging justice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is a cultural history of the interplay between the Western genre and American gun rights and legal paradigms. From muskets in the hands of landed gentry opposing tyrannical government to hidden pistols kept to ward off potential attackers, the historical development of entwined legal and cultural discourses has sanctified the use of gun violence by private citizens and specified the conditions under which such violence may be legally justified. Gunslinging justice explores how the Western genre has imagined new justifications for gun violence which American law seems ever-eager to adopt.
The Culture of Capital Punishment in Japan
The Culture of Capital Punishment in Japan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Culture of Capital Punishment in Japan write by David T. Johnson. This book was released on 2019-11-18. The Culture of Capital Punishment in Japan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This open access book provides a comparative perspective on capital punishment in Japan and the United States. Alongside the US, Japan is one of only a few developed democracies in the world which retains capital punishment and continues to carry out executions on a regular basis. There are some similarities between the two systems of capital punishment but there are also many striking differences. These include differences in capital jurisprudence, execution method, the nature and extent of secrecy surrounding death penalty deliberations and executions, institutional capacities to prevent and discover wrongful convictions, orientations to lay participation and to victim participation, and orientations to “democracy” and governance. Johnson also explores several fundamental issues about the ultimate criminal penalty, such as the proper role of citizen preferences in governing a system of punishment and the relevance of the feelings of victims and survivors.
American Revenge Narratives
American Revenge Narratives - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook American Revenge Narratives write by Kyle Wiggins. This book was released on 2018-07-21. American Revenge Narratives available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. American Revenge Narratives critically examines the nation’s vengeful storytelling tradition. With essays on late twentieth and twenty-first century fiction, film, and television, it maps the coordinates of the revenge genre’s contemporary reinvention across American culture. By surveying American revenge narratives, this book measures how contemporary payback plots appraise the nation’s political, social, and economic inequities. The volume’s essays collectively make the case that retribution is a defining theme of post-war American culture and an artistic vehicle for critique. In another sense, this book presents a scholarly coming to terms with the nation’s love for vengeance. By investigating recent iterations of an ancient genre, contributors explore how the revenge narrative evolves and thrives within American literary and filmic imagination. Taken together, the book’s diverse chapters attempt to understand American culture’s seemingly inexhaustible production of vengeful tales.
