Kicking Bodies and Damning Souls: The Danger of Harming “Innocent” Individuals While Punishing “Delinquent” States

Ethics and International Affairs 24 (3):261-285 (2010)
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Institutions can be assigned duties, and thus can also be blamed for failing to discharge them. But how can we respond to this type of failure? Punishment is a prominent and problematic response to institutional delinquency.

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10.1111/j.1747-7093.2010.00267.x

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