Vengeance: The fight against injustice

Author:   Pietro Marongiu ,  Graeme R Newman
Publisher:   Harrow and Heston
Volume:   2
ISBN:  

9780911577006


Pages:   208
Publication Date:   12 November 2019
Format:   Paperback
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The authors investigate the underlying cultural, psychological, and social forces that have helped to form the concept of retributive justice as it exists today in both the public mind, social media and the legal system. Drawing upon such diverse representations of vengeance as Greek mythology, the plays of Shakespeare, Dante's Inferno, the folklore of the Wild West, the Mafia, and contemporary films, the authors examine the historic and cultural manifestations of the need to inflict punishment on one's enemies. They contend that all acts of vengeance arise from an elemental sense of injustice--conditioned by a desire for equality, justice, and reciprocity. The new introduction extends and highlights the universality of vengeance, its enhancement by modern technologies and builds an even stronger case for it deep biological and animistic roots.

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Author:   Pietro Marongiu ,  Graeme R Newman
Publisher:   Harrow and Heston
Imprint:   Harrow and Heston
Volume:   2
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.313kg
ISBN:  

9780911577006


ISBN 10:   0911577009
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   12 November 2019
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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... the authors have pro-duced a landmark study that greatly enlarges our understanding of the problems of violence, criminal justice, and vigilantism in modern society --Ernest van den Haag


... the authors have pro duced a landmark study that greatly enlarges our understanding of the problems of violence, criminal justice, and vigilantism in modern society --Ernest van den Haag


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Emeritus professor, School of Medicine, University of Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy. Author of many publications on violence in Italy, such as Theory and History of Social Banditry in Sardinia. Graeme Newman is distinguished professor emeritus, School of Criminal Justice, University at Albany, .

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