Much has changed in the 25 years since conservative Southern congressmen attempted to derail Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act by offering an amendment that would extend its prohibitions to employment discrimination against women.' It is difficult to capture in the dry text the mocking condescension with which Congressman Smith of Virginia offered the amendment as his supporters chortled t...

Why do victims sometimes receive sympathy for their suffering and at other times scorn and blame? Here we show a powerful role for moral values in attitudes toward victims. We measured moral values associated with unconditionally prohibiting harm (“individualizing values”) versus moral values associated with prohibiting behavior that destabilizes groups and relationships (“binding values”: loya...

The problem of political corruption is particularly relevant for modern criminological science. processes formation and functioning power, due to their high social significance, have long been subject negative corruption, therefore they need a special protection mechanism. the study legal regulation banning financing activities (election campaigns), as well its reflection in local regulations c...

The majority of U.S. states disenfranchise formerly incarcerated individuals because their poverty by conditioning re-enfranchisement on the full payment legal financial obligations. This Note discusses practice wealth-based criminal disenfranchisement where inability to pay obligations, including fines, fees, restitution, interest payments, court debts, and other economic penalties, prohibits ...

Abstract Pagan revivalism is a growing trend in the contemporary religious landscape. Is it possible to be neopagan without disregarding demands of reason? While outright belief old gods seems out question, I argue that polytheism represents live epistemic possibility, and non-doxastic paganism therefore viable option. However, rational, should only commit general polytheism, rather than detail...