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office due to felony disenfranchisement laws. Thus, habitual offender laws target a formally disenfranchised group—people with felony convictions. That creates an archetypal political process problem. As ... he should raise that concern in the political arena, not the courts, and cast his vote accordingly. The problem for Brooker, and the one that animates this Article, is that he cannot vote. Because of
could prevent hate crimes from occurring in the first place. Those measures potentially include educational initiatives, conflict resolution programs, political reforms, social services, or other ... , political reforms, social services, or other proactive efforts aimed at the root causes of hate crimes. Focusing on the public conversation around anti-Asian hate crimes, this Essay argues that very
popular and political will to pass the reforms must extend beyond the passage of the law and must also create mechanisms to scrutinize, guide, and support the judiciary’s implementation of the law. ... . Although these reforms were democratic and popular, judges were not sufficiently incentivized to properly implement the changes. If reforms are to succeed, the popular and political will to pass the reforms
novel by Rainer Maria Rilke, which is conceptually connected with Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s dialectical philosophy and Friedrich Schiller’s humanism. The present work is an interpretation of ... ). Keywords: mexican literature; german philosophy; comparative literature; constitution of the subject; nihilism; humanism Dios es el mundo. La verdad es siempre un contacto interior e inexplicable
Criminology by an authorized editor of Northwestern University School of Law Scholarly Commons - THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF ENTRAPMENT RICHARD H. MCADAMS* INTRODUCTION By the time she was eighteen, Amy ... consider and critique the literature that seeks to justify the defense based on retributive theory, utilitarian theory, and political/institutional concerns. In each case, I do not claim that there is no
the richness and complexity of Nájera’s spiritual and religious life as well as his uncompromised alignment with the political agenda of Porfirio Díaz’ regime. For that purpose, a small number of ... biblical exegesis or journalistic debates of political-religious content. Palbrs evcla : Literatura y secularización; Modernismo; Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera; cuaresmas; porfiriato. KorDeyws : Literature and
circumstance that took advantage of anonymity to portray the political and cultural tensions between writers and reporters at the end of the 19th century in Mexico.Keywords : Short novel; literary press
, INEQUALITY 247–48 (1993); G.A. Cohen, How to do Political Philosophy, in ON THE CURRENCY OF EGALITARIAN JUSTICE, AND OTHER ESSAYS IN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY 228–29 (Michael Otsuka ed., 2011). to be punished.162 ... grateful to participants at the Stanford Law and Philosophy workshop for feedback on an early draft of this paper. And I owe special thanks to Juliana Bidadanure, Jessica Eaglin, James Forman Jr., Aziz Huq
is (prima facie) wrongful because it puts wrongful pressure on [the target’s] freedom to do otherwise.”); Mitchell Berman, Blackmail, in THE OXFORD HANDBOOK ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE CRIMINAL LAW 37, 62 ... personal or social characteristics such as psychological or emotional vulnerability, economic hardship, lack of a social safety net, and experience of natural disasters or political instability.56
Northwestern University School of Law Scholarly Commons Part of the Criminal Law Commons; Criminology Commons; and the Criminology and Criminal - AFTERWORD TO "LUNATICS AND ANARCHISTS: POLITICAL HOMICIDE IN
Páramo; Disillusion; Philosophy; Martin Heidegger.
developments suggest that American penal philosophy may be inching toward norms—dignity, proportionality, legitimacy, and rehabilitation—that have checked draconian prison terms in Europe, Canada, and beyond. In ... divergence or convergence in penal philosophy. Notwithstanding the ebb and flow of penal attitudes, certain long-term trends have emerged in Western societies. They encompass a narrowing scope of offenders
positivism was "the official philosophy of the Porfiriato" from the standpoint of a new conception of the positivist paradigm, and analyzing the three theses which have been put forward about the function of
later bureaucratic policing institutions through taxes and political influence.25 In the North, those “mercantile interests” were “commercial elites” who wanted to transfer the costs of protecting their ... equal human, economic, and political rights.39 Meanwhile, police in general, including in the North, steadily grew into pervasive control mechanisms over an “underclass” comprised “primarily of the poor
PHILOSOPHY, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2016/entries/consequentialism-rule [https://perma.cc/ 9JT2-FG52] (observing that consequentialists almost never defend a purely “actconsequentialist decision ... these activities.”); Gideon Yaffe, The Voluntary Act Requirement in THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO THE PHILOSOPHY OF LAW 174, 176 (Andrei Marmor ed., 2012) (“If a defendant is . . . shown to have engaged in a
The analysis of the first perceptions by Germans of the history of independent Mexico permits us to observe two trends. The first, and largest, sustained by actors or observers within the political ... political arena, considered Mexico incapable of governing itself. The second, and smaller, is owed to authors whose relationship with Mexico was essentially economic. These did not deny the difficult
and farce. While the adversaries of Felipe Ángeles propose to give a legal appearance to the elimination of a political adversary, the general converts the trial into a public action which permits him ... martyr who accepts being sacrificed for his political ideas, his ideals, and his ethical values. He revindicates in this way the sovereignty of his pure I and his interior liberty; and at the same time
In this paper I propose to reread the novel Guerra en el Paraíso alongside with the way concepts such as “dirty war” and “human rights” have entered the democratic political agenda of Mexico. Twenty
In this paper I propose to reread the novel Guerra en el Paraíso alongside with the way concepts such as “dirty war” and “human rights” have entered the democratic political agenda of Mexico. Twenty
In this paper I propose to reread the novel Guerra en el Paraíso alongside with the way concepts such as “dirty war” and “human rights” have entered the democratic political agenda of Mexico. Twenty
