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Title

   Justice with a vengeance: retributive desire in popular imagination

Authors

   Cassandra Sharp, University of WollongongFollow

Document Type

   Book Chapter

Publication Details

   Sharp, C. (2014). Justice with a vengeance: retributive desire in
   popular imagination. In M. Asimow and K. Brown (Eds.), Law and Popular
   Culture: International Perspectives (pp. 153-176). United Kingdom:
   Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Additional Publication Information

   ISBN: 9781443858106

Abstract

   The punishment of criminal behaviour has always been a hot topic in
   popular culture. Whether in fictional crime dramas or in mainstream
   news coverage, issues of law, justice, and punishment are constantly
   being refracted and reframed in a myriad of ways. We seem to like
   watching criminals not only being caught but also receiving the
   punishment they deserve. We love it when Sherlock Holmes or Patrick
   Jayne solves the crime on fictional television, and too often we hear
   stories in the media of a victim’s family that is indignant and angry
   that the perpetrator is seemingly “getting away” with a light sentence.
   We seem to have such a desire for justice to be done that we cry out
   for it when it seems lacking. This cry for justice, I argue, comes from
   a desire to hold individuals responsible for their actions, and it is
   the major reason for a contemporary suggestion in Australia that the
   criminal justice system is experiencing a “crisis of confidence.”

RIS ID

   92358
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