INTRODUCTION: REFRAMING THE ISSUE OF RACE AND IMPRISONMENT .............. 1272 A. The Distinctive Features of African American Mass Incarceration .......... 1274 1. Total numbers incarcerated. . . . . . . . . . . .. .. . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . ...... .... . . . . . . .. ... . . .. . . . .......... 1274 2. Rate of incarceration . . ... ......... . . . . . ..... . . ............. . . ...... ....

Scholars are divided over whether a victim s rights persist when an agent permissibly responds to an emergency. According to the prevailing view the moral force of rights is not extinguished by moral permissibility and the agent, therefore, has a duty to compensate the victim. According to another influential view permissibility does erase the moral force of rights and the agent, therefore, can...

the main purpose of this research is assessing the reason for the gap between moral knowledge and action of students despite current programs of moral education in schools, and suggesting components of good moral education to reduce this gap from allameh tabatabai’s viewpoints. to achieve this goal, descriptive-analytic method is used. the findings showed that the main operating in violation of...

the aim of this paper is examining and criticizing a new concept in moral education named moral literacy. recent years, moral literacy approach attempts to redefine morality in the framework of literacy and via that, return moral education to the school. logical-conceptual analysis of “moral literacy” indicated us some constructive elements of this combination like competency, knowledge, acquis...

nurses are often faced with serious situations that require high levels of legal and ethical knowledge, and should therefore be sensitive to the moral issues in their profession in the decision making process. some studies have investigated nurses’ moral self-concept as an effective factor in moral sensitivity, but there is not sufficient evidence to support this. the purpose of this study was ...