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Vengeance: The fight against injustice

Vengeance: The fight against injustice

Marongiu, Pietro
Newman, Graeme R.

Paperback

Series: Expanded Edition, Book 2

CriminologyGeneral Sociology

Publisher Price: $28.00

ISBN10: 0911577009
ISBN13: 9780911577006
Publisher: Harrow and Heston
Published: Nov 12 2019
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.48 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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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