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BL
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984648
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b739018
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| Main Entry
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Barton, Charles K. B.,1959-
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| Title & Author
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Getting even : : revenge as a form of justice /\ Charles K.B. Barton.
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| Publication Statement
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Chicago, Ill. :: Open Court,, ©1999.
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xviii, 180 pages ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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0812694015
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: 0812694023
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: 9780812694017
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: 9780812694024
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 160-170) and index.
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| Contents
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Paradigms of justice -- Pious myths about revenge -- Punishment and revenge -- Rationality and revenge -- Retribution and justice -- Retribution and revenge -- Revenge : its nature and definition -- A defense of moral retributivism -- Victim justice and institutionalized empowerment -- Beyond restorative justice : the primacy of empowerment.
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| Abstract
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"In Getting Even, Charles Barton contends that revenge can be a form of justice that is constructive and healing for our society. Our current judiciary system, he explains, denies both victims and the accused an active role in the legal proceedings and resolution of their cases, reducing them to bystanders in what is essentially their own conflict. Barton does not argue for an individual's right to take the law into his own hands, but does show that the courts should recognize the revenge motive as legitimate and rational within the rules of justice."--pub. desc.
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Criminal justice, Administration of.
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Lex talionis.
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Punishment-- Philosophy.
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Revenge.
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Criminal justice, Administration of.
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Lex talionis.
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Punishment-- Philosophy.
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Revenge.
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Gerechtigkeit.
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Rache.
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Strafe.
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| Dewey Classification
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303.3/6
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| LC Classification
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K5103.B37 1999
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