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A Prosocial Process

Basler, Stan L.
June 4, 2015

Source: (-0001) Oklahoma City University Law Review, vol. 33: 237-261

The article posits that the American culture values vindictiveness and anger more than repentance and forgiveness and that a tangible result of such a value system is an increase in the crime rate.

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