W&L Shepherd Program for the Interdisciplinary Study of Poverty and Human Capability: Recent submissions
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Health Inequality in the Andes: An Ethnicity-Centered Approach
In summary, there exists a significant body of work on health inequalities in the Andes. However, much of this literature provides somewhat fragmented pieces of a complex whole with respect to the production of health ... -
The Pursuit of Happiness: How Wealth Inequality Undermines Core American Values
Throughout the course of American history, the right to the pursuit of happiness provided the foundation for ideas such as the American Dream which preaches that Americans can "pull themselves up by their bootstraps" and ... -
The Hole Apartheid Dug: Reducing Crime in South African Townships with Entrepreneurship
For approximately fifty years (1948-1994), South Africa was controlled by a government fixated on the domination of the minority white population over "blacks", "coloreds", and "Indians". In this system, known as apartheid, ... -
Nutrition Effects on Health and Recidivism in the American Prison Complex
If food in prison was made more nutritious, would health outcomes improve, and recidivism be reduced? Using the Virginia State Department of corrections as my population, I explore this question in three parts; the existing ... -
Trust me, I'm a Doctor: Evaluating the Factors that Lead to Social Mistrust in the United States Healthcare System
The United States has a long history of health inequality. . . . The disturbing aspect of this situation is that disparities in health are not exclusively determined by individual choices and actions. Instead, they are ... -
Immigrant Access to Justice: Implications in Real Human Lives
This paper is divided into eight sections. I begin with a discussion of existing literature on the sociocultural factors which produce migrant women's disproportionate vulnerability. I then introduce three moral frameworks ... -
Examining Opportunity Zones by Looking at Enterprise Zones of the Past
The use of tax breaks to improve regions has an interesting and elaborate history. This paper goes through the creation of the concept, its past in America and the new national additions of opportunity zones in nine parts. ... -
Arts for All: An Analysis of Arts Access as it Relates to Socioeconomic Status and other Demographic Factors
This paper provides empirical evidence on the benefits of arts education. Building on this, I draw from moral philosophy to advance the claim that all children should receive arts education. However, this paper includes a ... -
Freedom and Moral Responsibility in a Deterministic Universe: Perspectives from Buddhism and Clinical Psychology (thesis)
I will be arguing that the concept of an ultimately free agent who takes final responsibility for his actions and desires is inherently incompatible with the dominant western paradigm of materialism and universal causation. ... -
Just Incarceration: A Moral Evaluation of Solitary Confinement
I will start by building an ethical framework for what constitutes just incarceration. Next, I will perform an in-depth analysis of the effects of the conditions of supermax prisons. For this analysis, I will synthesize ... -
The Problem with PrEP: Intersectional Stigma and Modern HIV Prevention in the United States
Even though the literature published on PrEP [Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis] is still relatively new, there has already been a lack of coherence between studies to understand which social mechanisms and individual factors ... -
Environmental Impacts on Psychological Well-Being for Individuals Experiencing Homelessness
This paper will briefly review certain aspects of the lived space for individuals experiencing homelessness. Specifically, the purpose of this review is to understand the multitudinous consequences of environmental stressors ... -
The Innocent Casualties of Imprisonment
The purpose of this paper is to examine the negative experiences children have when their parent goes to prison while comparing how these negative experiences differ based on socioeconomic status. . . . Our research ... -
The National School Lunch Program in Rockbridge County
Given the fact that 55 million US children between the ages 5 and 19 spend the majority of their days at school, the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) inherently has a significant role in determining the quality of our ... -
Financial Exclusion and Banking Participation of America's Working Poor
The highly developed financial system of the U.S. continues to exclude and fail millions of American households -- many of whom are disproportionately low-income and are in need of inclusive banking services the most. This ... -
The Expansion of Tayssir CCT Program: Increasing Girls' Secondary Educational Attainment in Rural Morocco
This paper examines ways in which the conditional cash transfer program Tayssir can help increase girls' secondary school attainment in rural areas of Morocco. Currently, the Tayssir program only targets children at the ... -
Sentencing Disparities of White Collar Crime and Non-White Collar Crime
97% of criminal prosecutions end in a plea deal. Thus, the sentence recorded by the United States Sentencing Commission is most likely a sentence negotiated during a pre-trial agreement. This paper will show that a disparity ... -
Homelessness in Dublin
The question and focus of this project is very much on why there is a large and pervasive problem of homelessness in Dublin. It will also focus on the ethical dimensions present and asking how should the situation be ... -
Modeling Decision-Making Within the Georgia Justice Project: Demonstrating a Better Way to Support Individuals and Promote Innovative Change
The American criminal justice system is plagued with inequities. People of color and/or low socioeconomic status are at an extreme disadvantage when they are compelled to interact with the justice system. Over 90% of people ... -
The Ethics of CRISPR: What We Can Do vs. What We Should Do
This research has two components. First, an extensive review of the primary and secondary literature on CRISPR [Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats] takes place. To begin speculating on the normative ...