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		<title>Fear and loathing redux</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/10/26/fear-and-loathing-redux/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2010 15:41:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Radley Balko at Reason magazine argues that the close association between democratic politics and crime policy results in a vicious cycle of fear-mongering, excessive incarceration, and intergenerational poverty. He cites a Boston Globe article that reveals a tendency for undue and irrational pessimism and fear among the population. I explored the problem of irrational fear [...]


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		<title>Bullied and pranked to death</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/10/05/bullied-and-pranked-to-death/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2010 13:53:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BBC News reflects on the shock and outrage following the death of a Rutgers student who died after an apparent incident of cyberbullying. The perpetrators face up to five years in prison for invading privacy. They might also face additional hate-crime charges. Depending on one’s perspective, these penalties may be just adequate or nowhere near [...]


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		<title>I don’t sanction that</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/09/30/i-don%e2%80%99t-sanction-that/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/09/30/i-don%e2%80%99t-sanction-that/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Sep 2010 15:41:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Foreign politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Punishment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[collective punishment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[genocide]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The BBC reports that the United States has imposed sanctions on key Iranian officials for human rights abuses dating from the crackdown on anti-government protesters in the summer of 2009. The sanctions consist of travel bans and asset freezes. As far as diplomatic tools go, sanctions like these –small, targeted ones- are mostly symbolic in [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/08/30/trading-values/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Trading values'>Trading values</a></li>
<li><a href='http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/06/25/live-and-let-die/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Live and let die?'>Live and let die?</a></li>
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		<title>The death penalty may be constitutional, but is it justified?</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/09/23/the-death-penalty-may-be-constitutional-but-is-it-justified/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/09/23/the-death-penalty-may-be-constitutional-but-is-it-justified/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 10:46:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Human rights]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The United States Supreme Court has refused to overturn the execution of a Virginia woman who conspired with two accomplices to murder her husband and stepson. The legal debate that has emerged around the case concentrates mostly on whether the woman, who is borderline mentally disabled, deserves a harsher sentence than her accomplices, who each [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/08/31/when-punishment-isnt-enough/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: When punishment isn&#8217;t enough'>When punishment isn&#8217;t enough</a></li>
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		<title>When punishment isn&#8217;t enough</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/08/31/when-punishment-isnt-enough/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/08/31/when-punishment-isnt-enough/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:23:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the latest episode of the War on Drugs, about 10% of the Mexican federal police have been fired for corruption or failure to perform their duties. Many face additional criminal charges. Perhaps some federales will now think harder before dealing with the cartels. As Jake has described, punishment serves four purposes: retribution, rehabilitation, deterrence, [...]


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		<title>Crimes against humanity: with oppression and injustice for most</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/07/27/crimes-against-humanity-with-oppression-and-injustice-for-most/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/07/27/crimes-against-humanity-with-oppression-and-injustice-for-most/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 19:06:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For his role in 16,000 deaths during the Khmer Rouge, Kaing Guek Eav, alias “Duch,” was recently sentenced to 35 years in prison. That he may walk free in 19 years at the age of 86 due to time served has baffled and infuriated Cambodians. The worst tyrants of the last century mostly escaped formal [...]


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		<title>Is it ok to publicly embarrass suspects?</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/06/25/is-it-ok-to-publicly-embarrass-suspects/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/06/25/is-it-ok-to-publicly-embarrass-suspects/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 18:40:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marc</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday Jamaican drug lord and gang leader Christopher Coke was arrested in Kingston.  The next day, his mugshot photos were all over the Jamaican (and international) news.  The kicker: Coke was dressed as a woman &#8212; wig and all (photo here).  It&#8217;s increasingly common for criminals on the run to masquerade as women&#8230;and for [...]


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		<title>Do enemy combatants take checks?</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/06/07/do-enemy-combatants-take-checks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 15:30:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How does cost affect where we should house suspected terrorists? The Washington Post ran a detailed article today on the $500 million that has been invested in renovations at the Guantanamo Bay base that has housed many of the enemy combatants we&#8217;ve captured since the 9/11 attacks. Among the more amusing expenditures: The cost of [...]


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		<title>Life-without-parole for juveniles</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/05/17/life-without-parole-for-juveniles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 22:37:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rules, standards, and individualized justice In Graham v. Florida, the Supreme Court yesterday outlawed life-without-parole for juveniles convicted of nonhomicide crimes, holding that such sentences violated the 8th&#8217;s Amendment&#8217;s prohibition of &#8220;cruel and unusual&#8221; punishment.  The argument involves two steps, neither of which involves much explicit political philosophy.  First, following Roper, the Court looks at [...]


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		<title>Miranda rights and wrongs</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/05/14/miranda-rights-and-wrongs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 13:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marc</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Attorney General Eric Holder announced this weekend that the Administration will seek to loosen the terrorism exception to Miranda rights law, allowing law enforcement even more flexibility to interrogate terrorism suspects before reading them their Miranda rights.  Not surprisingly civil liberties advocates are not happy.  So what do you think?  Should there be more of [...]


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