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  2. Retributive justice - Wikipedia

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    Retributive justice is a legal concept whereby the criminal offender receives punishment proportional or similar to the crime.As opposed to revenge, retribution—and thus retributive justice—is not personal, is directed only at wrongdoing, has inherent limits, involves no pleasure at the suffering of others (i.e., schadenfreude, sadism), and employs procedural standards.

  3. Revenge - Wikipedia

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    Revenge is a label that is ascribed based on perceivers’ attributions for the act. Revenge is an inference, regardless of whether the individuals making the inference are the harmdoers themselves, the injured parties, or outsiders. Because revenge is an inference, various individuals can disagree on whether the same action is revenge or not ...

  4. Self-defence in English law - Wikipedia

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    Revenge is evidence of unreasonableness [30] and seeking confrontation removes the defence. [31] No force might be reasonable if a threat would have sufficed. [32] A witness to violent crime with a continuing threat of violence may well be justified in using extreme force to remove a threat of further violence (CPS guidance).

  5. Cycle of violence - Wikipedia

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    The term cycle of violence refers to repeated and dangerous acts of violence as a cyclical pattern, [1] associated with high emotions and doctrines of retribution or revenge. [citation needed] The pattern, or cycle, repeats and can happen many times during a relationship. [1]

  6. Category:Revenge - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikimedia Commons; Wikidata item; ... Pages in category "Revenge" The following 34 pages are in this category ...

  7. Prosecutorial vindictiveness - Wikipedia

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    For example, in United States v. DeMarco, the court found actual vindictiveness where the government threatened to "up the ante" to discourage a defendant from exercising his right to change the trial venue. [7] A showing of actual vindictiveness is sufficient to prove a violation of the defendant's due process rights.

  8. Workplace revenge - Wikipedia

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    Workplace revenge, or workplace retaliation, refers to the general action of purposeful retaliation within the workplace.Retaliation often involves a power imbalance; the retaliator is usually someone with more power in the workplace than the victim, and retaliation may be done to silence the victim so the retaliator can avoid accountability for workplace bullying, workplace harassment, or ...

  9. On the Mindless Menace of Violence - Wikipedia

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    [5] [6] Kennedy also had three additional phone lines installed at the King residence to handle the influx of incoming calls while his staff established a phone bank at West Hunter Baptist Church in Atlanta for the King family's use. [5] That night at the Marott Hotel, Kennedy hosted a meeting with 14 local black leaders.