Browsing by Subject "punishment"
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A Dilemma for Criminal Justice Under Social Injustice
(2019)A moral dilemma confronts criminal justice in unjust states. If the state punishes marginalized citizens whose crimes are connected to conditions of systemic injustice the state has failed to alleviate, it perpetuates a ... -
Animals as Moral Agents
(2022)Since Peter Singer’s (1975) Animal Liberation, sentience has been the dominant justification for increasing non-human animal (hereafter ‘animal’) welfare. This dissertation is an attempt to discover a different reason to ... -
Democratic Punishment in Public Good Games with Perfect and Imperfect Observability
(Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID), 2015-08-26)In the context of repeated public good contribution games, we experimentally investigate the impact of democratic punishment, when members of a group decide by majority voting whether to inflict punishment on another member, ... -
Moral Luck and Responsibility
(2019-04-11)This paper will argue that we should take moral luck seriously. In Section 2, I explain the problem of moral luck and the assumptions on which it rests. In Section 3, I evaluate several proposed solutions to the problem ... -
Revising Justice: Punitory Thought and Action in the Work of Atwood, Jordan, and Oates
(2016-05-05)*Designated as an exemplary master's project for 2015-16*This paper examines how contemporary literature contributes to the discussion of punitory justice. It uses close analysis of three contemporary novels, Margaret Atwood’s ...
