On retaliation: towards an interdisciplinary understanding of a basic human condition

Retaliation is associated with all forms of social and political organization, and retaliatory logics inform many different conflict resolution procedures from consensual settlement to compensation to violent escalations. This book derives a concept of retaliation from the overall notion of reciprocity, defining retaliation as the human disposition to strive for a reactive balancing of conflicts and injustices. On Retaliation presents a synthesized approach to both the violence-generating and violence-avoiding potentials of retaliation. Contributors to this volume touch upon the interaction between retaliation and violence, the state's monopoly on legitimate punishment and the factors of socio-political frameworks, religious interpretations and economic processes.

On retaliation : conceptual plurality, transdisciplinary research, rifts, blurrings -- And translations / Bertram Turner -- Revenge and retaliation : a social-functionalist approach / Mario Gollwitzer and Arne Sjostrom -- In the heart of the moment : the influence of visceral factors on retaliation / Robert J. Bies and Thomas M. Tripp -- A criminal is a victim is a criminal? : an economist's view on the victim-offender overlap / Horst Entorf -- Laypeople's reactions to deviancy as determined by retributive motives / Margit E. Oswald -- Violent crimes and retaliation in the European criminal justice system between the seventeenth and nineteen centuries / Karl Harter -- Crime in motion : predation, retaliation and the spread of urban violence / Richard Wright, Volkan Topalli and Scott Jacques -- Crime and punishment : intentionality and diya in Algeria and Sudan / Yazid Ben Hounet -- 'Bewitched people and bad luck everywhere!' : disputing and magical retaliation in siSwati-speaking Southern Africa / Severin Lenart -- Forum shopping as retaliation in disguise : how nomadic Fulbe condemn retaliation and forum shopping, but practise them anyway / Albert K. Drent -- Customary law and the joys of statelessness : Somali realities beyond libertarian -- Fantasies / Gunther Schlee -- Retaliation in postwar times : an analysis of the rhetoric and practices of retaliation in Bamyan, Afghanistan, 2009 / Friederike Stahlmann -- The International Criminal Court reparation system : punishment, retaliation, restoration / Pietro Sullo -- Conclusion : retaliation in specific spheres of effectiveness / Bertram Turner