Barry Lam started the podcast by introducing a woman named Marlyn. Marlyn went to prison with something known as the chain gang, this system was predominantly worse for African American women. There was no system for her to get her GED and was therefore not able to get a job…

After the reconstruction period, southern states adopted laws known as “pig laws”. These laws were mainly designed to re-enslave African Americans. Such actions that would cause an individual to go through pig laws would be theft of swine or cattle or just theft in general. …

Sliwa starts of her article describing excuses and what they entail. She explains that they are a commonplace and they are how we practice holding each other accountable and morally responsible in our daily lives. …

Yankah begins his article with a story about when he was in an accident. He explains how he was in a big moving truck late at night with his friend (both were black) after a long day of hard work and he realized he had been hit from behind. The…

Edwards argues that laws were created to achieve various ends. One is to reduce the incidence of wrongdoing and the other is holding wrongdoers responsible for their wrongs. He goes on to elaborate how some laws are made to be followed and some are made to be broken. The ones…

In Mill’s On Liberty, he describes the harm principle’s purpose of only exercising power over an individual against their will when they are preventing harm from others. He goes on to say that, “In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his…

Feinberg starts out by explaining conditions that are not included in the Harm Principle, such conditions are fear, anxiety, disgust, embarrassment, annoyance and etc. He explains that these conditions are not covered in the Harm Principle and a separate and distinct principle is needed. The Offense Principle is then created…

John Stuart Mills lays out a struggle between authority and liberty in chapter one. He describes it as being the most “conspicuous feature in the portions of history with which we are earliest familiar, particularly in that of Greece, Rome, and England”(3). Mills described liberty as what was meant to…

Hello everyone! My name is Ashlynn and I am a junior Psych major minoring in criminal justice and nutrition. Everyone always asks what those have to do with each other and it’s because I want to be either a clinical psychologist (where I may have to work with anorexics or…