The Passions of Law
Author: Susan Bandes
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 383
ISBN-13: 081471305X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKScholars of law, theology, political science, and philosophy evaluate the role of emotion in the practice and conception of law and justice. Exploring the part that emotions such as disgust, shame, remorse, the desire for revenge, and love, all play in legal settings, the authors debate the ways that emotion should or should not be used in the decision making processes of judges, lawyers, and juries, and explore the possibility of an emotional hierarchy, and ways to evaluate emotion in sensational cases, such as death sentencing and hate crimes. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR