The Culture of Vengeance and the Fate of American Justice
Terry K. (Harvard University, Massachusetts) Aladjem
Cambridge University Press, 2008
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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'. Terry Aladjem argues that this dangerously authoritarian turn has its origins in the tradition of liberal justice itself.
- ISBN-13
- 9780521713863
- ISBN-10
- 0521713862
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Year
- 2008
- Publication date
- 2008-01-14
- Pages
- 260
- Dimensions
- 227x150x15
- Weight
- 37