Vengeance as Ideology? northern Illinois, this article discusses violence and vengeance among and vengeance are attempts to establish order over escalating disorder. Vengeance often relies on a conviction regarding some higher moral order. Second, vengeance can operate as a kind of counter ideology when unreliable. Third, when we consider vengeance as a kind of ideology, we something from view. In short, vengeance hides pain, fear, and other