Remorse : Psychological and Jurisprudential Perspectives.

Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Scenes and Stories of Remorse -- Introduction -- Remorse in the News -- Remorse in Fiction -- Remorse in Poetry -- Remorse in Biography -- Remorse in Mythology and Religion -- Conclusion -- 2 Analysing Remorse: A Philosophical Approach -- Introduction -- What is an Emotion? -- The Retractive Emotions -- Defining Remorse and its Near Neighbours -- Remorse's Belief -- Remorse's Feelings -- Remorse's Desires -- Remorse's Volitions -- Lucid and Distorted Remorse -- Recognizing Remorse -- 3 Remorse and Related Emotions: A Psychological Approach -- Introduction -- Remorse in Relation to Other Emotions -- Remorse and its Relatives: Regret, Guilt and Shame -- Empirical Distinctions Between Remorse and its Relatives -- A Model of Remorse and its Relatives -- The Importance of Shame and Guilt -- Conclusion -- 4 The Interpersonal Effects of Remorse -- Introduction -- Judgement, Punishment and Behaviour -- Theories which Address Remorse as an Interpersonal Phenomenon -- Empirical Studies of the Interpersonal Effects of Remorse -- A Meta-analysis of the Effects of Remorse -- Simulation Studies Involving Participants with Criminal Justice Experience -- Interpersonal Effects of Remorse in Legal Settings -- Associations of Remorse and Related Emotions with Offender Characteristics -- Summary -- Directions for Future Research -- 5 Proving Remorse -- Introduction -- Evidence of Remorse -- Adducing Evidence of Remorse at the Sentencing Hearing -- The Witnesses of Remorse: The Offender -- The Witnesses of Remorse: Lay Witnesses -- The Witnesses of Remorse: Expert Witnesses -- Research Studies on Construction of Remorse -- Scepticism and Certainty in Findings of Offender Remorse -- 6 Remorse as a Mitigating Factor in Sentencing -- Introduction -- Remorse as a Legal Good.

Defining the Mitigation Principle -- Does Remorse Make Punishment Redundant? -- Can Offering Mitigation Induce Remorse? -- Should Remorse be Rewarded with Mitigation? -- Remorse Should be Recognized by Mitigation -- Two Arguments Against Remorse as a Mitigating Factor -- Appendix: Legal Sources -- 7 Absence of Remorse as an Aggravating Factor in Sentencing -- Introduction -- The Variety of Reasons for an Absence of Remorse in Criminal Offenders -- The Implausibility of a General Policy of Aggravation -- Is Aggravation a Corollary of Mitigation? -- A Communicative Argument for Aggravation -- A Retributivist Argument for Aggravation -- A Utilitarian Argument for Aggravation -- Parsimonious Sentencing and the Non-proliferation of Aggravating Factors -- A Rights-based Argument Against the Aggravation Principle -- Appendix: Legal Sources -- 8 Moral Emotions and Psychological Interventions with Offenders -- Introduction -- Responses to Offending: Cognitive, Behavioural and Emotional -- Emotional Reactions Following Different Types of Offences -- Emotional Consequences of Offending: Remorse, Regret, Guilt and Shame -- Psychological Interventions with Offenders: Addressing Cognition and Emotion -- Suggestions for Therapeutic Interventions Following Offending -- 9 Remorse and Restorative Justice Conferencing -- Introduction -- What is Restorative Justice Conferencing? -- Restorative Justice Conferencing and the Criminal Justice Process -- The Effectiveness of Restorative Justice Conferencing -- Desirable Emotions in Restorative Justice Conferencing -- Ethical Issues in Managing Emotion in Restorative Justice Conferencing -- 10 Looking Forwards with a Backwards-looking Emotion -- Introduction -- Themes from Preceding Chapters -- Remorse and Related Emotions -- Measurement Suggestions for Future Research.

Implications of Remorse, Guilt, Regret and Shame from Three Perspectives -- Concluding Postscript -- Appendices -- Appendix A: Description of Meta-analysis Approach -- Appendix B: Meta-analysis of Simulation Studies of Remorse -- Appendix C: Effect Sizes for Simulation Studies of Remorse Involving Participants with Criminal Justice Experience -- References -- Index.

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.

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