Archive for the ‘Law and Society’ Category
Monday, January 18th, 2010
Sometime around the end of 2009, in the wake of Abdulmutallab's failed attempt to bring down Northwest flight 253, I was having a conversation about the incident. My fellow converser expressed hesitation to declare the incident a security breach. Her hesitation was rooted in the fact that the attempt was ...
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Monday, November 23rd, 2009
Does societal responsibility for individual health needs give rise to individual responsibility to maintain health?
The proposed changes in healthcare have consumed a fair portion of media attention over the past few months. Much of the debate revolves around the provisioning of healthcare to American’s. But buried deep in the discussions ...
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Saturday, May 16th, 2009
Punishing Consequences or State of Mind: An Examination of the Driving Force Behind the Criteria Used for Criminal Punishment - PART 2
This post is a hugely delayed continuation of a discussion that I began several months ago here: Do We Imprison People Randomly? If you have not read that earlier ...
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Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009
Last month New York Governor David Paterson proposed an obesity tax to be levied on fattening foods. He characterizes America's problem with obesity as a crisis. Drawing a comparison to cigarettes, he suggests that just as cigarette taxes reduced the number of American's consumption of cigarettes, a tax on certain ...
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Friday, December 12th, 2008
A couple of days ago I posted part one of my article examining whether our method of punishing criminals leads to imprisonment based on what are seemingly random events. If you haven’t read that article and you have some time, you can check it out here: Do We Imprison People ...
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Monday, December 8th, 2008
Punishing Consequences or State of Mind: An Examination of the Driving Force Behind the Criteria Used for Criminal Punishment - PART 1
On a pleasant spring day, two men go out hunting. They both have a history of heart problems and have both had a heart attack within the ...
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