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More Than Just Victors' Justice: A Defense of the Solely Retributive Character of Atrocity Crime Punishment by International Criminal Tribunals
Because atrocity crimes are sui generis, nothing other than the pursuit of retribution can justify their international prosecution. Other commonly given general justifying aims for punishment all fail -- to incapacitation, ...
The Hidden Homeless: Addressing the Obstacles of the Rural Homeless in Rockbridge County, Virginia
Rural homelessness is an understudied subset of homelessness population in the United States. Yet, the rural homelessness has important distinguishing characteristics and barriers to care that make addressing the problems ...
Who Is Poor? Poverty in the United States Re-examined from a Multidimensional Perspective
Poverty is a long-established economic outcome worthy of scholarly and political concern. The issue of addressing poverty deals primarily with identification: who is poor? This paper constructs a Multidimensional Poverty ...
Hf and Pb Isotope Data for Mafic Lava Flows from the Three Sisters and Newberry Regions of the Central Oregon Cascades (thesis)
The Cascade arc is an end member convergent margin in which the young and slowly subducting slab is hotter than in most subduction zones. Consequently, the timing and location of slab contribution, namely dehydration, is ...
Aristotle's Theory of Just Exchange (thesis)
In this paper, I provide an explanation of marginal and equilibrium analysis, analytic techniques from modern economics, and then defend an interpretation of the passage as meaning that an exchange is just when the value ...
From Solemnity to Celebration: The Commercialization of the Day of the Dead (thesis)
As holidays have evolved over the past century many have changed from their original intention of celebrating military victories or certain individuals to focusing more on commercial practices that imitate a false sense ...
Corporate Social Responsibility as a Tool for Poverty Alleviation
The purpose of this paper is to argue that there is tremendous potential through CSR (corporate social responsibility) to improve the relations between the private and public spheres of society. It is from the actions of ...
Sacrificing the Mentality of Childhood: Poverty's Impact on Children with Mental Illnesses
According to the CDC, up to a fifth of children from all income brackets are thought to suffer from a mental illness ("Child Mental Health"). Low-income children are disproportionately affected with one-third to one-half ...
Predatory Financial Practices and the Impact on the Poor
In summary, the solutions for breaking the cycle of poverty presented by this paper focus heavily on reducing the exorbitant costs of financial services paid by low-income families. This is in contrast to the long-standing ...
Resources, Time, and Family: Expanding Parental Leave Policy
This paper seeks to summarize and analyze the available evidence about the benefits and costs of workplace flexibility for low-wage workers and their children, in particular, in order to further the design of a national ...