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SYLLABUS
Midgely,Mary."TryingOutOne'sNewSword."InDoingEthics:Moral
ReasoningandContemporaryIssues.3rded.EditedbyLouisVaughn.W.W.Norton&
CALENDAR Company,2012.ISBN:9780393919288.

iek,Slavoj."Ecology."InExaminedLife:Excursionswith
ContemporaryThinkers.EditedbyAstraTaylor.TheNewPress,2009.ISBN:
THIS COURSE AT 1 Introduction
9781595584472.[PreviewwithGoogleBooks]
MIT
Transcriptsofthediscussionsinthefilm"ExaminedLife"canbefoundin:

ExaminedLife:ExcursionswithContemporaryThinkers.EditedbyAstra
Taylor.TheNewPress,2009.ISBN:9781595584472.[PreviewwithGoogleBooks]
READINGS

Coates,TaNehisi."TheBanalityofRichardCohenandRacistProfiling."TheAtlantic,
2 RacialProfiling
ASSIGNMENTS July17,2013.

Fried,BarbaraH."BeyondBlame."BostonReview,June28,2013.
U.S.CriminalPunishment/
QUESTIONS FOR 3
JusticeSystem Kelly,Erin."Responseto'BeyondBlame'."BostonReview,July10,2013.
DISCUSSION

Menninger,Karl."TheCrimeofPunishment."InReasonand
DOWNLOAD COURSE Responsibility:ReadingsinSomeBasicProblemsofPhilosophy.9thed.EditedbyJoel
MATERIALS Feinberg.Wadsworth,Inc.,1996.

Lewis,C.S."TheHumanitarianTheoryofPunishment."InReasonand
Responsibility:ReadingsinSomeBasicProblemsofPhilosophy.9thed.EditedbyJoel
Feinberg.Wadsworth,Inc.,1996.

Stillman,Sarah."GetOutofJail,Inc."TheNewYorker,June23,2014.

Hedges,Chris."ThePrisonStateofAmerica."Truthdig,December28,2014.
4 Punishment,Deterrence,Prisons Isaacs,Caroline."TreatmentIndustrialComplex:HowForProfitPrisonCorporationsare
UnderminingEffortstoTreatandRehabilitatePrisonersforCorporateGain."American
FriendsServiceCommittee,November17,2014.

"PrivatePrisons."AmericanCivilLibertiesUnion.

CriticalResistance.

TheSentencingProject:ResearchandAdvocacyforReform.RacialDisparity
Committee,AssociationofStateCorrectionalAdministrators.

PunishmentandJusticeHandout(PDF)

Ghoshroy,Subrata. "The'StarWars'ProjectMyStruggleasaParticipantandMy
DecisiontoBlowtheWhistle."(PDF1.4MB)2015.

MilitarySpending,Federal
5 SpendingUniversities'Research
BudgetsandDollarsSpent
Gillis,Justin."BillGatesandOtherBusinessLeadersUrgeU.S.toIncreaseEnergy
Research,"NewYorkTimes,February23,2015.
Wolfers,Justin."AllYouNeedtoKnowAboutIncomeInequality,inOneComparison,"
NewYorkTimes,March13,2015.

ScienceforthePeople.

ChestnutFarms.
EthicalSustainableFarming
6
Practices WhyEatLessMeat.

Alexander,Leigh."AGameisBeingBeaten."TheNewInquiry,March10,2014.
7 GenderandGaming
."PlayingOutside."TheNewInquiry,June17,2013.
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