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  2. Zemiology - Wikipedia

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    "Crime consists of many petty events" – In a large proportion of reported crimes, the harms endured by victims, if there are any, are minimal. [ clarification needed ] Hence Hillyard and Tombs argue that "the definitions of crime in the criminal law do not reflect the only or the most dangerous of antisocial behaviours."

  3. Unethical human experimentation - Wikipedia

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    Examples include American abuses during Project MKUltra and the Tuskegee syphilis experiments, and the mistreatment of indigenous populations in Canada and Australia. The Declaration of Helsinki, developed by the World Medical Association (WMA), is widely regarded as the cornerstone document on human research ethics. [1] [2] [3]

  4. Medical ethics - Wikipedia

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    Medical ethics is an applied branch of ethics which analyzes the practice of clinical medicine and related scientific research. [1] Medical ethics is based on a set of values that professionals can refer to in the case of any confusion or conflict. These values include the respect for autonomy, non-maleficence, beneficence, and justice. [2]

  5. Ethics of torture - Wikipedia

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    The basic ethical debate is often presented as a matter of deontological versus utilitarian viewpoint. A utilitarian thinker may believe, when the overall outcome of lives saved due to torture are positive, torture can be justified; the intended outcome of an action is held as the primary factor in determining its merit or morality.

  6. Ethics of care - Wikipedia

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    Subsequent research suggests that the differences in care-based or justice-based ethical approaches may be due to gender differences, or differences in life situations of genders. [7] [8] [9] Gilligan's summarizing of gender differences provided feminists with a voice to question moral values and practices of the society as masculine.

  7. Right realism - Wikipedia

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    Right realism, in criminology, also known as New Right Realism, Neo-Classicism, Neo-Positivism, or Neo-Conservatism, is the ideological polar opposite of left realism.It considers the phenomenon of crime from the perspective of political conservatism and asserts that it takes a more realistic view of the causes of crime and deviance, and identifies the best mechanisms for its control.

  8. Sociology of punishment - Wikipedia

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    Wright [1982] in his discussion of Utilitarianism, describes three main goals of individual prevention. “Firstly”, he begins “imprisonment deters [the] individual from committing crime” [p. 26]. So one reason for sending the offender to prison for a crime, is to make him less likely to commit further crimes through fear of more ...

  9. Radical criminology - Wikipedia

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    Property crime is a symptom of a system that exploits the lower classes and puts the well-being of the property of the upper class above the needs of the lower class. Therefore it is not truly a crime, but only a reaction to an unjust society. Under capitalism, all crimes committed by the lower class are necessary for their survival. [7]