Download or read book Honor and Revenge A Theory of Punishment written by Whitley R.P. Kaufman and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-08-28 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the problem of justifying the institution of criminal punishment. It examines the “paradox of retribution”: the fact that we cannot seem to reject the intuition that punishment is morally required, and yet we cannot (even after two thousand years of philosophical debate) find a morally legitimate basis for inflicting harm on wrongdoers. The book comes at a time when a new “abolitionist” movement has arisen, a movement that argues that we should give up the search for justification and accept that punishment is morally unjustifiable and should be discontinued immediately. This book, however, proposes a new approach to the retributive theory of punishment, arguing that it should be understood in its traditional formulation that has been long forgotten or dismissed: that punishment is essentially a defense of the honor of the victim. Properly understood, this can give us the possibility of a legitimate moral justification for the institution of punishment.
Download or read book RODOMONTE S REVENGE written by Gary Paulsen and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2011-10-26 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Brett watched, one hand slipped loose, then the other. Tom dropped, screaming, into the flames. His body, all red and bubbled, boiled up once to the surface, then was gone. PLAYER ONE HAS ONE LIFE REMAINING. GAME CONTINUES. Flaming fire rivers. Divebombing buzz-bugs. A cruel king waiting to do battle in his computer-generated castle. Video game whizzes Brett Wilder and Tom Houston think that new virtual reality game Rodomonte’s Revenge is awesome-until it takes over their minds. Then the game playing becomes dangerously real, and one wrong move could be the last.
Download or read book Honor s Revenge written by Mari Carr and published by Farm Boy Press. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A seduction laced with secrets. Danger hidden in lies. A forbidden love that might get them killed. Sylvia enjoys beautiful things and when two handsome men knock on her door, the desire is instant and scorching. Lancelot is sexy-dangerous, Hugo is sexy-smart, and Sylvia expects to shock them by proposing a menage. But Hugo and Lancelot are part of a secret society with some very interesting rules. And they’re asking odd, pointed questions about her past. Hugo wants to protect her. Lancelot knows they need to use her. After all…she’s the key to finding a killer. In the hunt for an enemy who will stop at nothing to bring down the Masters Admiralty, both men are forced to decide between completing their mission or saving the only woman they could ever love. Honor's Revenge is a threesome romantic suspense. It can be read as a standalone or enjoyed as part of the ongoing Trinity Masters series.
Download or read book An Incomplete Revenge written by Jacqueline Winspear and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her fifth outing, Maisie Dobbs, the extraordinary Psychologist and Investigator, delves into a strange series of crimes in a small rural community With the country in the grip of economic malaise, and worried about her business, Maisie Dobbs is relieved to accept an apparently straightforward assignment from an old friend to investigate certain matters concerning a potential land purchase. Her inquiries take her to a picturesque village in Kent during the hop-picking season, but beneath its pastoral surface she finds evidence that something is amiss. Mysterious fires erupt in the village with alarming regularity, and a series of petty crimes suggests a darker criminal element at work. As Maisie discovers, the villagers are bitterly prejudiced against outsiders who flock to Kent at harvest time—even more troubling, they seem possessed by the legacy of a wartime Zeppelin raid. Maisie grows increasingly suspicious of a peculiar secrecy that shrouds the village, and ultimately she must draw on all her finely honed skills of detection to solve one of her most intriguing cases. Rich with Jacqueline Winspear's trademark period detail, this installment of the bestselling series, An Incomplete Revenge, is gripping, atmospheric, and utterly enthralling.
Download or read book Revenge written by Salman Akhtar and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-11-21 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revenge: Narcissistic Injury, Rage, and Retaliation addresses the ubiquitous human wish to take revenge and settle scores. Featuring the contributions of eleven distinguished mental health professionals, it offers a panoramic and yet deep perspective on the real or imagined narcissistic injury that often underlies fantasies of revenge and the behavioral trait of vindictiveness. It describes various types of revenge and introduces the concept of a ‘good-enough revenge.’ Deftly blending psychoanalysis, ethology, religious studies, literary criticism, and clinical experience, the book goes a long way to enhance empathy with patients struggling with hurt, pain, and desires to get even with their tormentors. This volume is of great clinical value indeed!
Download or read book Alfred the Great King s Revenge written by Bruce Corbett and published by Bruce Corbett. This book was released on with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After seven years of hard-won peace, a Viking army lands in Wessex and attacks Rochester. Alfred the Great has traitors within the Empire, and two powerful Viking Kings to his north. Nevertheless, he manages to drive out the invaders. He hits back at their sanctuary, and enrages Guthrum of East Anglia. The West Saxons cross the Thames River, decimate the Viking settlements on the northern shore, and seize London. Guthrum gathers his forces and marches south, while Alfred and his army prepare for the battle which will decide the fate of all Britain. Alfred, historical, Viking, Wessex, England, Saxon, Ambrose, polonius, king guthrum, guthrum, alfred the great, adventure
Download or read book Revenge in the Name of Honour written by Nicholas James Kaizer and published by Reason to Revolution. This book was released on 2019-12-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British Royal Navy entered the War of 1812 expecting victory. Naval victories of the previous two decades and the mythos of Lord Nelson had built a naval culture accustomed to aggressive action and victory against all odds. No one expected the tiny United States Navy to triumph, and yet by the year's end three British frigates and two sloops ha
Download or read book Mary Anne s Revenge The Baby Sitters Club Friends Forever 8 written by Ann M. Martin and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even though Cokie has never been nice to Mary Anne, Mary Anne has always been nice to Cokie. But this time Cokie's gone too far--and Mary Anne is going for revenge, with a little help from her friends.
Download or read book The Date of Revenge for Honour written by Fredson Bowers and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Kind of Wild Justice written by Linda Anderson and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study demonstrates not only that the devices of revenge are structurally useful in comedy, but also that there is a consistent conception of revenge as an ethical social instrument in the comedies of Shakespeare.
Download or read book Blood Revenge written by Joseph Ginat and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers blood homicide and outcasting in Bedouin and rural Arab society in Israel. This edition includes material on the "Mebasha", a Bedouin legal judge who determines whether an individual speaks the truth by an ordeal by fire; licking a very hot spoon and inspecting the tongue for blisters.
Download or read book Revenge written by Taslima Nasrin and published by The Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 2010-09-07 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the exiled Bangladeshi poet and internationally acclaimed author of Shame comes a delicious tale about getting even. In modern Bangladesh, Jhumur marries for love and imagines life with her husband, Haroon, will continue just as it did when they were dating. But once she crosses the threshold of Haroon’s lavish family home, Jhumur is expected to play the role of a traditional Muslim wife: head covered, eyes averted, and unable to leave the house without an escort. When she becomes pregnant, Jhumur is shocked to discover that Haroon does not believe the baby is his, demanding an immediate termination of the pregnancy. Overwhelmed by his distrust, Jhumur plots her payback in the arms of a handsome and artistic neighbor. Readers the world over will eat up this cautionary tale of love, lust, and blood ties, delivered by the award-winning “voice of humanism everywhere” (Wole Soyinka).
Download or read book Revenge written by Laura Blumenfeld and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003-04-02 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "But ultimately it is a journey that leads her back home - where she is forced to confront her childhood dreams, her parents' failed marriage, and her ideas about family. In the end, her target turns out to be more complex - and in some ways more threatening - than the stereotypical terrorist she'd long imagined."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book The Paradise of Revenge written by Richard Lee Orey and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2006-10 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Paradise of Revenge is a sizzling psychological drama novel of judicial corruption, passion, uncommon courage and the dramatic love story of young Josefina Camarillo. Seduced by Satan's whispered promise to restore her precious innocence, devout young Josefina turns her back on God and schemes her wicked biblical revenge on Shy Lanier, the teenaged son of the man she believes brutally raped and disfigured her. Meanwhile, the dazzling and brilliant Lonnie Lanier, the devoted wife of Josefina's convicted rapist, swallows her pride and morality to work undercover in a Lawyers Only escort service gathering the evidence she needs to prove her husband's innocence and to bring to justice the ruthless courthouse crime family that framed her husband. Share the passion of devout young Josefina Camarillo--uncensored, uncut, as it happened--as she schemes her wicked biblical revenge. Live this intimate, emotion-packed story of dear sweet Josefina, her battle with Satan ́s emissaries and her discovery of Truth-- *We are never alone *God is everywhere *Love is the ultimate revenge The Paradise of Revenge presents love, sex, passion and romance on the bed of judicial corruption in a powerful story with a shocking and heartfelt resolution, a story inspiring courage and faith, a story that will haunt you for years. A bold, capitivating book you ́ll enjoy reading twice--once for the mind and again for the heart. A scintillating read for you and your friends. Visit the author at www.Authorsden.com/richardleeorey
Download or read book Forgiveness and Revenge written by Trudy Govier and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2011-02-25 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a powerful exploration of our attitudes to serious wrong-doings and a careful examination of the values that underlie our thinking about revenge and forgiveness.This text examines the impact of revenge and forgiveness.
Download or read book Payback written by Thane Rosenbaum and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-04-10 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We call it justice—the assassination of Osama bin Laden, the incarceration of corrupt politicians or financiers like Rod Blagojevich and Bernard Madoff, and the climactic slaying of cinema-screen villains by superheroes. But could we not also call it revenge? We are told that revenge is uncivilized and immoral, an impulse that individuals and societies should actively repress and replace with the order and codes of courtroom justice. What, if anything, distinguishes punishment at the hands of the government from a victim’s individual desire for retribution? Are vengeance and justice really so very different? No, answers legal scholar and novelist Thane Rosenbaum in Payback: The Case for Revenge—revenge is, in fact, indistinguishable from justice. Revenge, Rosenbaum argues, is not the problem. It is, in fact, a perfectly healthy emotion. Instead, the problem is the inadequacy of lawful outlets through which to express it. He mounts a case for legal systems to punish the guilty commensurate with their crimes as part of a societal moral duty to satisfy the needs of victims to feel avenged. Indeed, the legal system would better serve the public if it gave victims the sense that vengeance was being done on their behalf. Drawing on a wide range of support, from recent studies in behavioral psychology and neuroeconomics, to stories of vengeance and justice denied, to revenge practices from around the world, to the way in which revenge tales have permeated popular culture—including Hamlet, The Godfather, and Braveheart—Rosenbaum demonstrates that vengeance needs to be more openly and honestly discussed and lawfully practiced. Fiercely argued and highly engaging, Payback is a provocative and eye-opening cultural tour of revenge and its rewards—from Shakespeare to The Sopranos. It liberates revenge from its social stigma and proves that vengeance is indeed ours, a perfectly human and acceptable response to moral injury. Rosenbaum deftly persuades us to reconsider a misunderstood subject and, along the way, reinvigorates the debate on the shape of justice in the modern world.
Download or read book Clutches of Revenge written by Kayee Bradley and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carissa Langford is a businesswoman who dreams of having it all: a successful career and a beautiful family. The death of her father, though, sets in motion consequences that she never could have foreseen, especially when her nasty stepmother with dark allies is left jilted by the will. Ignorant of the storm building around her, Carissa meets Trevor Montgomery, handsome known womanizer. They charm each other, and despite his reputation, Carissa finds Trevor to be the man of her dreams. However, Trevor has a hidden past wrought with heartbreak, and someone is out to get him. Cold, calculating Colton Jamison wants nothing more than to turn Trevor's life into a living hell, and it doesn't matter who he hurts along the way. Carissa's quiet life is now filled with dark obsession, revenge, and murder. As she is dragged further into the abyss with Trevor, she watches her life shatter. Will she be able to survive the terror of one man's revenge and protect the people she loves from the coming storm?
