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Showing 1 to 20 of 65 for “"culpability"”.
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Madness as the Foundation of Non-Culpability
Doctoral dissertation Abstract Background The relation between mental illness and accountability, may at its best be described as unclear. A negative correlation them between was established thousands of years ago, and has since formed a more or less self-evident supposition. This dissertation is …
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Testimonial Injustice and the Puzzle of Hearer Culpability
… of testimonial injustice, the puzzle of hearer culpability: how is it possible for hearers to be culpable for beliefs they form on the basis of stereotypes and prejudices that regularly bypass conscious thought? In trying to solve this puzzle, I consider one way to hold hearers culpable despite …
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Hierarchy and Responsibility in Media: Cults, Culpability, and Culture
… television shows portray issues of hierarchy and culpability within the cult and to explore how the genre and theme of the content was utilized in order to evoke certain reactions and sentiments in the audience. The selected films were The Sacrament, Martha Marcy May Marlene, and Midsommar. The …
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Objection! Perspective-taking in the court: How juror's instructions affect empathy, culpability, and verdict decisions
… control affect judgments of empathy, culpability for a crime, and guilty or not guilty verdicts. A pilot study using a college student sample and a main study using an online sample from Prolific.com aimed to answer whether perspective-taking increased empathy, and decreased ratings of …
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"What if We're on the Wrong Side?": Police Brutality, Protest, and Player Culpability in Heavy Rain and Detroit: Become Human
<p>Choice-based video games have often been called “interactive movies” for their unique position as a genre that lets players craft a unique story by making decisions that alter the game’s narrative. Two well-known examples in this genre, Quantic Dream’s <em>Heavy Rain </em>and <em>Detroit: Become …
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The culpability of men in gender-based violence and their role in its alleviation: The case of Oshakati town, Oshana region, Namibia
… statistics. This study investigated the moral culpability of men in gender-based violence and their role in its alleviation in Oshakati, Oshana region, Namibia. A case study research design was utilised, based on a qualitative research approach. Twenty-three participants were purposively …
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Multivariate Analysis of War Crime Behaviour: Implications for the International Criminal Court
… the actions on the ground and a perpetrator’s culpability. The purpose of this study was to produce the first multivariate model of war crime ground action using cases of war crime offences in Cambodia and Rwanda. The aim was to first identify a representative range offence behaviours, and …
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Making White Guilt Fitting
… guilt is fitting only in cases of direct moral culpability while addressing practical criticism that white guilt is at variance with the aims of social justice movements. Taking on Baldwin's perspective on whiteness as a subjective choice, I develop an Identity-Based Account of white guilt …
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The Establishment of Blame As A Framework for Sensemaking in the Space Policy Subsystem: A Study of the Apollo 1 and Challenger Accidents
… to these two accidents and the process by which culpability was established. This dissertation extends our knowledge of how the blame dynamic operates within a policy subsystem and how, through this assignment of blame, the policy subsystem and the nation makes sense of these tragic events. Three …
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Self-deception and Responsibility
… in moral responsibility and criminal culpability. It consists of three parts. Part I focuses on the phenomenon of self-deception and proposes a new model of the mind of the self-deceiver based on recent research in cognitive psychology. The central argument is that self-deception …
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Theatre as a Verb: The Theatre Art of Martha Graham, 1923-1958
… as the condemned Queen, confronting her own culpability, and consequently attaining rebirth. Graham's performance in this role, as well as the dance itself, inspired exceptionally enthusiastic critical acclaim. Virtually all observers termed Clytemnestra a masterwork; many claimed that it was …
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Law enforcement's reconceptualization of juvenile prostitutes from delinquency offenders to child sexual abuse victims in six US cities
… utilized to examine to predict the juveniles' culpability status as a victim. The full model predicted 91% of the cases correctly and explained 67% of the variance in juveniles' culpability status as a victim. Youth involved in prostitution who were more cooperative with law enforcement, whose …
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The gate with critical analysis
… the contents of Sam’s memory reveal David’s true culpability. The play examines the importance of conscience and the potential horror of its absence, and explores how the consequences of a course of action are too unpredictable and far reaching to allow good intent to justify reprehensible means.
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Moral Responsibility and Motivating Reasons: On the Epistemic Condition for Moral Blameworthiness
… presupposition made by volitionists—the “culpability internalist” view that blameworthiness for an act requires that the agent has beliefs or credences concerning the act’s moral significance. Following a defence of this presupposition against those who deny it, I turn to a more detailed …
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In the Hearts of Palms
… forces the reader to ask questions about the culpability of certain characters, and ostensibly of him and herself.
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A criminology of catastrophe: a critical analysis of imperialistic state crime and the Haiti earthquake
… at a criminological understanding of human culpability in the production of harm? I argue that the degree of human suffering caused by natural disasters is aggravated by imperialistic state crimes, which predispose populations to conditions of vulnerability and dependency. I substantiate …
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Metamorphosis and fairy tale tropes in Christa Wolf’s Patterns of Childhood
… East German authors from exposing their culpability for prior acts committed under the Nazi Regime. Furthermore, Wolf introduces metamorphosis to explore the intrinsic evil and subsequent guilt of her child protagonist, and she uses the child’s capacity for evil to illustrate the German …
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Consumer Animosity in Cross Cultural Context
… the question about possible morality and even culpability. Recent government actions regarding restoration and even restitution to Native Americans could signal changing attitudes regarding possible responsibility. Depending on personal beliefs and societal norms, this could be perceived as an …
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The History Management of the East-Elbian Nobility After 1945
… in recent history, and specifically, about their culpability in the disasters that brought about war, defeat and moral shame to Germany. The first phase of noble history management concerned an expressed ‘resistance against Hitler’ alignment and self-distancing from the regime. The second phase of …
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