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Informationen zum Autor Thane Rosenbaum is a novelist, essayist, and law professor. He is the author of The Myth of Moral Justice: Why Our Legal System Fails to Do What's Right , as well as four novels, The Golems of Gotham , Second Hand Smoke , the novel-in-stories, Elijah Visible , and the novel for young adults, The Stranger within Sarah Stein . His articles, reviews, and essays appear frequently in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and Huffington Post, among others. He lives in New York, where he is the John Whelan Distinguished Lecturer in Law at Fordham Law School and directs the Forum on Law, Culture, and Society. Klappentext 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! Rosenbaum demonstrates that vengeance needs to be more openly and honestly discussed. Zusammenfassung We call it justice - the assassination of Osama bin Laden! the incarceration of corrupt politicians or financiers! and the slaying of cinema-screen villains by superheroes. But could we not also call it revenge? Revenge! the author argues! is not the problem. Instead! the problem is the inadequacy of lawful outlets through which to express it.
