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Edited Cox - Remorse and Reparation (Forensic Focus , No 7) - 9781853024511 - V9781853024511
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Remorse and Reparation (Forensic Focus , No 7)

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Description for Remorse and Reparation (Forensic Focus , No 7) Hardcover. Remorse, or rather the lack of it, frequently features in banner headlines. But there is little systematic study of this important inter-disciplinary topic whose relevance has extensive social ramifications. The complex relationship between remorse, shame, guilt and attempts at reparation, are discussed in this authoritative work. Editor(s): Cox, Murray. Series: Forensic Focus. Num Pages: 288 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: JKVQ; JMK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 453.

Remorse, or rather the lack of it, frequently features in banner headlines. But there is little systematic study of this important inter-disciplinary topic whose relevance has extensive social ramifications. Should a show of remorse by an offender be taken into account in sentencing? Is there a correlation between the experience of remorse and a diminished likelihood of re-offending? And is there a correlation between the experience and the expression of remorse? Such questions, and the complex relationship between remorse, shame, guilt and attempts at reparation, are discussed in this authoritative work.
This volume is the first comprehensive attempt to bring ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Jessica Kingsley Pub
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Series
Forensic Focus
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781853024511
SKU
V9781853024511
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About Edited Cox
Murray Cox M.A.F.R.C.Psych.M.Inst.G.A.(Hon) was Consultant Psychotherapist at Broadmoor Hospital from 1970 to 1997. He edited Shakespeare Comes to Broadmoor and Forensic Psychotherapy: Crime Psychodynamics and the Offender Patient (jointly with Christopher Cordess) and wrote Shakespeare as Prompter and Mutative Metaphors in Psychotherapy with Alice Theilgaard, all published by Jessica Kingsley.

Reviews for Remorse and Reparation (Forensic Focus , No 7)
`Familiar though they are in literature, religion and philosophy, the phenomena of remorse and reparation are rarely explored in either the theory or practice of forensic psychotherapy. This book begins to address those omissions, dealing with clinical and legal questions and ranging widely over political, philosophical, sociological and artistic perspectivesRemorse and Reparation is very much the expression of Murray Cox's ... Read more

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