Norms of Pride and Resistance: Psychology, Virtue, and the Blackmail Puzzle - Draft 11-17-1992

Authors

Wendy J. Gordon, Boston University School of LawFollow

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Document Type

Article Draft

Publication Date

11-17-1992

Language

en-US

Abstract

Blackmail law can impact on the belief structures (moralisms) and behaviors of both the potential criminal and the potential victim; it also can affect the conceptual and value structures of lawyers and other societal onlookers. These issues surrounding what one might call the "symbolic" virtues of outlawing the act of blackmail may help to explain why blackmail law seems relatively unconcerned with the well-being of victims who would prefer to pay rather than prosecute their tormenters.

Comments

This also includes correspondence with Wendy Beetlestone of the the University of Pennsylvania Law Review.

Recommended Citation

Wendy J. Gordon, Norms of Pride and Resistance: Psychology, Virtue, and the Blackmail Puzzle (Nov. 17, 1992) (unpublished manuscript).

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