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Author: R. S. A. Garcia
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Published: 2014-05-30
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9781940076126
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA battered young woman wakes from a coma in a space port hospital with no memories of her past. The only thing she remembers are two words: Lex Talionis--the Law of Revenge. To discover her identity, she must re-live the nightmares of her past, and face the only survivor of a terrible massacre that connects her with her abductors.
Author: Stephanie H. M. van Goozen
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 1317759893
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased upon lectures presented at an invitational colloquium in honor of Nico Frijda, this collection of essays represents a brief and up-to-date overview of the field of emotions, their significance and how they function. For most, emotions are simply what we feel, giving our lives affective value. Scientists approach emotions differently -- some considering the ""feeling"" aspect to be of little relevance to their research questions. Some investigators consider emotions from a phenomenological perspective, while others believe that the psychophysiological bases of the emotions are of prime im.
Author: Louis P. Pojman
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2000-01-01
Total Pages: 189
ISBN-13: 0585080682
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTwo distinguished social and political philosophers take opposing positions in this highly engaging work. Louis P. Pojman justifies the practice of execution by appealing to the principle of retribution: we deserve to be rewarded and punished according to the virtue or viciousness of our actions. He asserts that the death penalty does deter some potential murderers and that we risk the lives of innocent people who might otherwise live if we refuse to execute those deserving that punishment. Jeffrey Reiman argues that although the death penalty is a just punishment for murder, we are not morally obliged to execute murderers. Since we lack conclusive evidence that executing murderers is an effective deterrent and because we can foster the advance of civilization by demonstrating our intolerance for cruelty in our unwillingness to kill those who kill others, Reiman concludes that it is good in principle to avoid the death penalty, and bad in practice to impose it.
Author: Benjamin S. Yost
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2019-02-13
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 0190901179
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe specter of procedural injustice motivates many popular and scholarly objections to capital punishment. So-called proceduralist arguments against the death penalty are attractive to death penalty abolitionists because they sidestep the controversies that bedevil moral critiques of execution. Proceduralists do not shoulder the burden of demonstrating that heinous murderers deserve a punishment less than death. However, proceduralist arguments often pay insufficient attention to the importance of punishment; many imply the highly contentious claim that no type of criminal sanction is legitimate. In Against Capital Punishment, Benjamin S. Yost revitalizes the core of proceduralism both by examining the connection between procedural injustice and the impermissibility of capital punishment and by offering a comprehensive argument of his own which confronts proceduralism's most significant shortcomings. Yost is the first author to develop and defend the irrevocability argument against capital punishment, demonstrating that the irremediability of execution renders capital punishment impermissible. His contention is not that the act of execution is immoral, but rather that the possibility of irrevocable mistakes precludes the just administration of the death penalty. Shoring up proceduralist arguments for the abolition of the death penalty, Against Capital Punishment carries with it implications not only for the continued use of the death penalty in the criminal justice system, but also for the structure and integrity of the system as a whole.
Author: Charles K. B. Barton
Publisher: Open Court Publishing
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9780812694024
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author of this text aims to show that revenge is a required form of justice that should be incorporated into the criminal justice system. He argues that the current system disempowers those who are victims of crime, the accused, and their respective communities.
Author: Ferdinand David Schoeman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9780521339513
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn examination of the responsibility individuals have for their actions and characters.
Author: Larry May
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-07-31
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781108484107
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Nearly four thousand years ago, kings in various ancient societies, especially in Mesopotamia (contemporary Iraq), faced a crisis of major proportions. Large portions of the population were horribly in debt, many being forced to sell themselves or their children into slavery to pay off their debts. The laws and customs seemed to support the commercial practices that allowed lenders to charge 20%-30% interest, and the law protected the lenders and gave no recourse for the indebted. Strict justice called for the creditors to receive what they were due. But another legal concept, the emerging idea of equity, seemed to call for a different result - the use of law as a vehicle to free people from economic oppression. Debt relief edicts were instituted - "clean-slate laws" as they were known - and are of obvious relevance today as well where crushing debt is a major issue underlying social inequality"--
Author: Andreas von Hirsch
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2017-02-09
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 1509902678
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides an accessible and systematic restatement of the desert model for criminal sentencing by one of its leading academic exponents. The desert model emphasises the degree of seriousness of the offender's crime in deciding the severity of his punishment, and has become increasingly influential in recent penal practice and scholarly debate. It explains why sentences should be based principally on crime-seriousness, and addresses, among other topics, how a desert-based penalty scheme can be constructed; how to gauge punishments' seriousness and penalties' severity; what weight should be given to an offender's previous convictions; how non-custodial sentences should be scaled; and what leeway there might be for taking other factors into account, such as an offender's need for treatment. The volume will be of interest to all those working in penal theory and practice, criminal sentencing and the criminal law more generally.
Author: Hammurabi
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2017-07-20
Total Pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9781973773627
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Code of Hammurabi (Codex Hammurabi) is a well-preserved ancient law code, created ca. 1790 BC (middle chronology) in ancient Babylon. It was enacted by the sixth Babylonian king, Hammurabi. One nearly complete example of the Code survives today, inscribed on a seven foot, four inch tall basalt stele in the Akkadian language in the cuneiform script. One of the first written codes of law in recorded history. These laws were written on a stone tablet standing over eight feet tall (2.4 meters) that was found in 1901.
Author: Lexie Talionis
Publisher: Ceteris Paribus Publishing
Published: 2022-01-07
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9781737800378
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA coming-of-age story that puts a new spin on the fated mates trope.Nat, a shy young girl who grew up too quickly, stumbles upon a terrifying yet gorgeous wolf boy in the woods. She takes him in, pretending he's her brother, making it awfully difficult for them when they find themselves falling in love. That and the fact that he starts killing people. And that he can't seem to get hard, no matter how much he wants to be with her.When they discover his body won't work because he already has a fated mate, Nat is devastated. But Caleb refuses to heed his body's call. No drug of destiny is going to tear him away from the girl he's wanted so desperately for so long but could never take...as a human. And if clinging to her means becoming a rabid monster, so be it.
