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In this follow up to I Was Wrong: The Meanings of Apologies, Nick Smith expands his ambitious theories of categorical apologies to civil and criminal law. After rejecting court-ordered apologies as unjustifiable humiliation, this book explains that penitentiaries were originally designed to bring about penance - something like apology - and that this tradition has been lost in the assembly line of mass incarceration. Smith argues that the state should modernize these principles and techniques to reduce punishments for offenders who demonstrate moral transformation through apologizing. Smith also explains the counterintuitive situation whereby apologies come to have considerable financial worth in civil cases because victims associate them with priceless matters of the soul. Such confusions allow powerful wrongdoers to manipulate perceptions to disastrous effect, such as when corporations or governments assert that apologies do not equate to accepting blame or require reform or redress

AbstractThis paper builds on previous research to provide a Political Apology Inventory and also a Political Apology Index to measure political apologies across various elements. This inventory and index are meant to assist those offering apologies as well as those receiving and evaluating meanings provided by specific political apologies.

Describes the triennial quest to win the international yachting trophy as a fierce competition by countries seeking to demonstrate their technological proficiency and innovation and reap the economic benefits that recent winners have gained; role of corporate sponsorship of teams and poor countries' inability to compete.