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