The Ethical Treatment of Prisoners Kristal Kulik SOC 120 Sheila Farr February 4‚ 2013 According to our textbook‚ “Introduction to Ethics and Social Responsibility’ ethics refers to the study of the moral value of human behavior and the rules and principles that are meant to govern the behavior” (Mosser‚ 2010). A theory that falls under this is Utilitarianism. Utilitarianism is the belief that moral rules should be choices made by a society to promote the happiness of its members (Mosser‚
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Functionalist approach to Crime and Deviance Durkheim Functionalism sees society as based on value consensus. Functionalists argue that in order to achieve this solidarity‚ society has two key mechanisms: socialisation and social control (mechanisms include rewards positive sanctions for conformity‚ and punishments negative sanctions for deviance) The inevitability of crime Durkheim believes that crime is normal‚ and argues there are at least two reasons why crime and deviance are found
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This paper will evaluate the two analysis views of a utilitarian: act (extreme) and rule (restricted). First of all‚ an act (extreme) utilitarian concentrates on the effects of individual actions; therefore‚ act utilitarian believes that actions should result in the best overall result possible and produce the most usefulness. Usefulness is defined by
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protect patient’s rights. In addition it will identify the consequences of non-disclosure in comparison to disclosure without consent‚ whilst adhering to the General Medical Council (GMC) guidelines. Finally it will explain the scenario from a utilitarian viewpoint as well as deontological perspective. Please refer to appendix for case study. In the case scenario‚ Dr Gomez’s patient Bob is diagnosed with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)‚ and has been advised to inform his partner Sue of his
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(What are we justified in doing to bring about the good?) Ideas of the good life Hedonism Desire Satisfaction Theory Objective Goods Theory Theories of Right Action Utilitarian Deontological Feminist Virtue Theory Cases Protesting Unjust Government Aiding an impoverished community Torture Letter to Menoeceus By Epicurus (341-270 BC) Epicurus ‘Hedonism’ in popular culture http://www.hedonism.com/ Hedonism: Different kinds of desires. Just to be clear
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utilitarianism. A utilitarian would argue that Raskolnikov has not reached an acceptable solution because he has not accurately solved the problem. On the other hand‚ a non-utilitarian would reject even the notion of deliberating about the act of murder in such a mathematical manner. He might contend that Raskolnikov’s reasoning‚ and the entire theory of utilitarianism‚ cannot be used to judge morality because it rejects individual rights and contains no moral absolutes. A utilitarian bases his belief
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with deontological moral judgements being ‘driven by automatic emotional processes’ in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (VMPC)‚ an area specific to moral judgements (Greene & Haidt‚ 2002) and social emotion (Damasio‚ Tranel & Damasio‚ 1990)‚ and utilitarian moral judgements being ‘driven by controlled cognitive processes’‚ in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DPC). In line with this‚ it has been shown that emotions are important in raising an individual’s awareness of moral dilemmas and help to make
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types of Utilitarianism; "act" and "rule". An act utilitarian uses thought processes associated with utilitarianism to make all decisions. This requires a lot of thought and careful calculation. For example‚ an act utilitarian deciding from a list of possible day trips would sit down and calculate out the utility of each possible decision before coming to a conclusion as to which one was preferable. Contrary to an act utilitarian‚ a rule utilitarian uses the principles of utility to create a set
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Research Paper Capital Punishment March 5‚ 2005 The debate about the right and wrong of capital punishment has gone on for many years. The article that is the basis for this paper‚ skims the surface of this debate. Convicted Killer Michael Ross is not opposed to his sentence. It is opponents to the death penalty that are behind all of the protests. I have to agree with the protestors on this one‚ capital punishment is nothing more than
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Strategic Ethical Issues in relation to a Holiday Park Contents Pages Assignment Brief Introduction Background to the industry Background to Holiday Park What is Ethics? Teleological Theories Stakeholder Theory Corporate social responsibility Impacts of ethical behaviour in relation to ethical decision making Costs and drawbacks of behaving Ethically Benefits of ethical behaviour Ethical Issues of
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