Abstract To call attention to and motivate action on ethical issues in business or society, messengers often criticize groups for wrongdoing ask these change their behavior. When criticizing target groups, frequently identify express concern about harm caused a victim group, the process address group by them causing this imploring change. However, we find that when way—expressing singular group...

Agents sometimes innocently benefit from the wrongdoing perpetrated by others. It has been asserted that when this happens beneficiary acquires a defeasible duty to disgorge these benefits until beneficiary’s gain is extinguished or victim’s loss reversed. At same time, critics have denied existence of duties disgorgement. In paper, we contribute debate proposing novel account underlying justif...

This Publisher’s Note updates and replaces the Expression of Concern (doi: 10.1242/jcs.205559) relating to the article ‘Chromosomal breaks during mitotic catastrophe trigger γH2AX–ATM–p53-mediated apoptosis’ by Gabriela Imreh, Helin Vakifahmetoglu Norberg, Stefan Imreh and Boris Zhivotovsky (2011). J. Cell Sci. 124, 2951-2963 (doi: 10.1242/jcs.081612). Concerns were raised regarding some of the...