Evidence-based justice: Corrupted memory

Justice and evidence in surgery

Surgery is an increasingly common and expensive mode of medical intervention. The ethical dimensions of the surgeon-patient relationship including respect for personal autonomy and informed consent are much discussed, but broader equity issues have not received the same attention. This paper extends the understanding of surgical ethics by considering the nature of evidence in surgery and its re...

Justice sensitivity and source memory for cheaters

The present experiment examines how sensitivity to injustice from the observer perspective influences memory for faces associated with descriptions of cheating, trustworthy, or irrelevant behavior. The source memory advantage for faces of cheaters observed in previous studies, that is, better memory for the cheating context in which these faces were encountered, was replicated in a group with h...

Improving the Effectiveness of Juvenile Justice Programs: A New Perspective on Evidence-Based Practice Improving the Effectiveness of Juvenile Justice Programs A New Perspective on Evidence-Based Practice

Justice-based social assistance

What are the main objectives of social protection institutions in developing countries? What should be their scope and reach? What is the source of their legitimacy? Finding appropriate answers to these questions is essential to understanding, and shaping, the emergence of welfare institutions in low- and middle-income countries. Most available answers rely on instrumental arguments. Few make r...

Environmental Justice: Evidence from Superfund Cleanup Durations

This paper investigates the extent to which cleanup durations at Superfund sites reflect demographic biases incongruent with the principles of Environmental Justice. We argue that the duration of cleanup, conditional on a large number of site characteristics, should be independent of the race and income profile of the neighborhood in which the site is located. Since the demographic composition ...