Beschreibung:
In Remorse, Proeve and Tudor have created a volume that will benefit both theorists and practitioners within the fields of law and psychology, by bringing together relevant scholarship and insights of neighbouring disciplines to advance their understanding of remorse. It is a key internationalist work that considers the implications of differing displays of remorse within a variety of settings.
Contents: Preface; Introduction; Scenes and stories of remorse; Analysing remorse; a philosophical approach; Remorse and related emotions: a psychological approach; The interpersonal effects of remorse; Proving remorse; Remorse as a mitigating factor in sentencing; Absence of remorse as an aggravating factor in sentencing; Moral emotions and psychological interventions with offenders; Remorse and restorative justice conferencing; Looking forwards with a backwards-looking emotion; Appendices; References; Index.