title: Getting Even: Revenge As a Form of Justice
author:  Charles K.B. Barton 
description: A serious intellectual challenge to those of us who reject the concept of revenge. It is fresh, breaking out of the standard approaches of retributivist scholarship in a most innovative way. Whatever your preferred philosophy of punishment, after reading Barton's book you are unlikely to think of revenge in quite the same way. -- <i>John Braithwaite, Australian National University</i><br /><br />Barton's highly readable discussion, with its effective dual philosophical and practical orientation, will prompt searching reassessments, both from philosophers concerned with the place of retribution in an adequate moral theory of punishment, and from those working for improvements in our criminal justice systems. -- <i>John Bishop, University of Auckland</i><br /><br />The best book-length study available on the rationality and morality of revenge. It is marvelously lucid and deeply challenging. -- <i>Graham Oddie, University of Colorado at Boulder</i><br /><br />The vast majority of contemporary moral theorists hold that revenge and retribution are morally indefensible. Charles Barton subjects this view to a very close scrutiny; and develops a very serious, circumspect, and sustained argument in support of moral retributivism. This thought-provoking and very well-written book deserves to be widely read and discussed. -- <i>Michael Tooley, author of <i>Abortion and Infanticide</i></i>
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  ACT OF REVENGE
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Also by John Bishop
  
  Act of Murder
  
  Act of Deception
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ACT OF  
  REVENGE
  
  A DOC BRADY MYSTERY
  
  John Bishop, MD
  
  MANTID PRESS
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Act of Revenge  
  A Doc Brady Mystery  
  Copyright © 2020 by John Bishop. All rights reserved.
  
  ISBN: 978-1-7342511-4-2 (paperback)  
  ISBN: 978-1-7342511-5-9 (eBook)  
  Published by Mantid Press
  
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