CHAPTER FOURTEEN

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CHAPTER FOURTEEN

• FROM PERSONAL VENGENCE TO RESTORATIVE JUSTICE

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Personal Vengeance

• What do we normally think of?
• Most acts are more subtle
• Humiliation
• Criticism
• Beating them in competition
• Property crimes like vandalism
• Correlated to justice

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Historical Context

• Perspectives
• Destructive and a sin
• Deterrence potential
• Escalation
• Spiral out of control
• Blood feud

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From Private Vengeance to Public Justice

• Vengeance given to society
• Eye for an eye
• Greeks, Romans and Christians
• Modern viewthe state as the victim
• Hard for real victim to accept
• Disillusionment and distrust of cj. System

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Personal Vengeance Today

• What happened to crime rate in 80s and early
  90s?
• What was the public response?
• Examples
• Bernhard Goetz
• Gary Plauche
• Were they ethically right?

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Victim Impact Statements

• What is a VIS?
• How is it used?
• 1990sfocus back on actual victims
• Payne v. Tennessee

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Restorative Justice

• What is restorative justice
• Restorative responsibility
• Passive responsibility
• Active responsibility

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The Punishment Perspectives

• Role of deterrence
• Role of retribution
• Role of rehabilitation
• Role of incapacitation

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Issues for Restorative Justice

• Victim blaming
• Emphasizing individual responsibility

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FROM PERSONAL VENGEANCE TO RESTORATIVE JUSTICE

• END CHAPTER FOURTEEN