Staddon, John ER2012-10-302012-10-301995-02Staddon, J. (1995) On responsibility and punishment. The Atlantic Monthly, Feb., 88-94.https://hdl.handle.net/10161/5944The litany of social dysfunction is now familiar. The rates of violent crime are higher than they have ever been: Americans kill and maim one another at per-capita rates an order of magnitude higher than other industrialized nations. The rate of marriage has been generally declining and the rate of illegitimacy hits new highs each year. Tens of thousands of children have no fathers and no family member or close acquaintance who has a regular job. This pattern is now repeat-ing into a second and third generation...legal responsibility, punishment,addictionJournal article