Justice v. Revenge: The Question Beneath the Question of Prison Reform
…ayers, and, as reformers on both sides of the aisle argue, our own moral selves. Perhaps most importantly, there is little evidence that revenge helps victims, writes journalist Ellis Cose, who reported on the after-effects of crimes ranging from murder to the attacks on the World Trade Center and apartheid for his book Bone to Pick: Of Forgiveness, Reconciliation, Reparation, and Revenge. Cose writes that “for every survivor who responds to an ex…
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