Forgiveness and Retribution

Responding to Wrongdoing

Bibliographic Data

ID23798554
AuthorsMargaret R Holmgren (Iowa State University, corresponding author)
Year2012
Publication date2012-03-12
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueForgiveness and Retribution (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9781139086165
OpenAlexW4237923745
Open LibraryOL34557308M
ISBN9781139086165
LanguageEN
Citations received11

Forgiveness and Retribution: Responding to Wrongdoing argues that ultimately, forgiveness is always the appropriate response to wrongdoing. In recent decades, many philosophers have claimed that unless certain conditions are met, we should resent those who have wronged us personally and that criminal offenders deserve to be punished. Conversely, Margaret Holmgren posits that we should forgive those who have ill-treated us, but only after working through a process of addressing the wrong. Holmgren then reflects on the kinds of laws and social practices a properly forgiving society would adopt.

Criminology · Economic Justice · Forgiveness · Political science · Retributive justice · Wrongdoing · Forgiveness and Related Behaviors · Free Will and Agency · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology · War, Ethics, and Justification · conduct of life · Retribution

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