This essay focuses on cultural constructions of infanticide and psychosis, especially cases in which the mother heard delusional commands to kill her children. Part I examines the background of the Yates, Laney, and Diaz cases. Part II explores whether these mothers can be seen paradoxically as feminist subjects of empowerment rather than as victims. This essay argues that psychotic mothers hav...

This paper investigates a jury decision when hung juries and retrials are possible. When jurors in subsequent trials know that previous trials resulted in hung juries, informative voting cannot be an equilibrium regardless of voting rules unless the probability that each juror receives the correct signal when the defendant is guilty is identical to the one when he is innocent. Thus, while Cough...

Abstract In light of increasing pressure to deliver climate action targets and the growing role citizens in raising importance issue, deliberative democratic processes (e.g. citizen juries assemblies) on change are increasingly being used provide a voice decision-making. Through comparative case study two that ran UK 2019 (the Leeds Climate Change Citizens’ Jury Oxford Assembly Change), this pa...

PARTICIPATION by lay citizens in technically complex political controversies often raises questions about the competence of participants and the quality of their contributions to decision-making. One way of addressing such concerns has been to establish temporary advisory bodies that involve lay people in cooperative deliberation informed by expert advice. Citizen juries, consensus conferences,...

Four years after the Panama Papers scandal, tax avoidance remains an urgent moral-political problem. Moving beyond both academic and policy mainstream, I advocate “democratization of enforcement,” by which mean systematic efforts to make avoiders accountable judgment ordinary citizens. Both individual oligarchs multinational corporations have access sophisticated strategies that impose signific...

OBJECTIVES To elicit the views of well informed community members on the ethical obligations of general practitioners regarding prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing, and what should be required before a man undergoes a PSA test. DESIGN AND SETTING Three community juries held at the University of Sydney over 6 months in 2014. PARTICIPANTS Forty participants from New South Wales, of divers...