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“I Wish I Had Better Answers”: Organizational Ignorance in US Criminal Courts
Sociological Forum, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Systems of monetary sanctions in US criminal courts present an opportunity for furthering the sociological understanding of complex and consequential organizations. We examine whether and how court actors across eight states understand the organizational processes supporting the fiscal logic of legal financial obligations (LFOs).
Sarah K. S. Shannon +3 more
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Faith in the Marketplace: Christian Legal Narratives and the Refusal to Serve Gay Customers
Sociological Forum, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In June 2023, the US Supreme Court in 303 Creative v. Elenis held that an anti‐discrimination statute could not force a Christian business owner to provide certain business services to gay people. The decision has created a slew of legal and social uncertainties, which require a deeper investigation of the contemporary conflict between the gay
Mantas Grigorovicius
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Feeling Virtue: An Enactive Theory of Approval
Theoria, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A neo‐sentimentalist theory of virtue holds that a trait is virtue if, and only if, it merits approval. Neo‐sentimentalists tend to be sceptical about the prospect of such a theory because it seems unlikely that feelings of approval can be characterised without reference to the notion of virtue. I argue that that scepticism is uncalled for. My
Rafael Graebin Vogelmann
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Moral Tolerance: The Ethics of Social Punishment in Cases of Moral Disagreement
Theoria, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In many practical contemporary contexts, people need to make correct ethical judgements about how to respond to perceived wrongdoing—in particular, whether to punish it or tolerate it. This judgement can be challenging when the wrongdoer does not accept the allegation of wrongdoing at the level of moral principle, holding that the type of ...
Hugh Breakey, Graham Wood
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Linguistic Justice in World Englishes: A View From Cultural Appropriation
World Englishes, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article highlights the need to better clarify what we understand by linguistic justice. Failure to do so poses the danger that the concept not only remains something we may clamour for but is also one that we are unable or unwilling to recognize should we ever encounter it.
Lionel Wee
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Pollution and Haunted Eco‐Histories: Silent Hill and Silent Horrors in Centralia, Pennsylvania
Popular Culture Review, Volume 37, Issue 2, December 2026.ABSTRACT Centralia is a former mining town and borough in Northeastern Pennsylvania, whose population has been steadily declining since the Mine Fire of 1962—a fire that still burns today. The “horrors” of living in Centralia are reflected in horror media set in postindustrial mining towns like Silent Hill.
Maz Jardon
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Governance, Volume 39, Issue 4, October 2026.ABSTRACT Public service co‐production is often framed as a means of creating public value, yet its dynamics are complex when citizen‐led participation is catalyzed by strong public institutions. This mixed‐methods study examines government‐catalyzed, citizen‐centric co‐production in Shanghai, China, where the state provides institutional support ...
Huanming Wang, Xiaoyun Sun, Bing Ran
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The Modern Law Review, Volume 89, Issue 5, Page 760-784, September 2026.Exemplary damages are commonly understood as public interest awards. This article explores the logical implications of understanding them in this way for a tort claimant's rights of action and settlement, and for the proper distribution of awards. One implication, it suggests, is that settlements, being compromises of public ends, should require court ...
Kit Barker
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Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, Volume 34, Issue 3, September 2026.ABSTRACT Disaster management systems (DMS) operate in contexts of uncertainty, urgency and complexity. Events such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster and the COVID‐19 pandemic exposed how infrastructural breakdowns and weak coordination undermine institutional performance while accelerating innovation in digital ...
Ricardo J. Saez +2 more
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Views of suffering among medical students. [PDF]
Philos Ethics Humanit MedSeeno H +11 more
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