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Vengeance and furies: existential dilemmas in penal decision-making (2011)
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Green, S. (2011). Vengeance and furies: existential dilemmas in penal decision-making. In J. Hardie-Bick, & R. Lippens (Eds.), Crime, Governance and Existential Predicaments (61-84). London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230343184_4

For over two and a half thousand years the Western intellectual tradition has been dominated by a philosopy that saw knowledge and reason as the route by which understanding and progress could be achieved. Since Socrates ruminated in ancient Athens t... Read More about Vengeance and furies: existential dilemmas in penal decision-making.