Abstract Some normative theorists believe that there is a principled moral reason not to retain benefits realized by injustice or wrongdoing. However, critics have argued this idea implausible. One purported problem the lacks an obvious rationale and attempts provide one been unconvincing. This paper articulates defends in question has expressive quality: it gets its reason-giving force from sy...

We analyzed 40 cases of falsification, fabrication, or plagiarism (FFP), comparing them to other types of wrongdoing in research (n=40) and medicine (n=40). Fifty-one variables were coded from an average of 29 news or investigative reports per case. Financial incentives, oversight failures, and seniority correlate significantly with more serious instances of FFP. However, most environmental var...

On the classical understanding, an agent is fully excused for action if and only performing this was a case of faultless wrongdoing. A major motivation view apparent existence paradigmatic types excusing considerations, affecting fault but not wrongness. I show that three such ignorance, duress compulsion, can be shown to have direct bearing on permissibility actions. The appeal distinctly iden...

To investigate how adolescents interpret ambiguous actions in hypothetical interracial peer encounters, we conducted a study in which 8th- and 11th-grade students (N = 837) evaluated 4 interracial peer encounters in which the intentions of the protagonist were ambiguous. The sample was evenly divided by gender and included both African American and European American adolescents. European Americ...

In a recent article, Mannion and Davies argue that there are a multitude of ways in which organizations (such as the National Health Service [NHS]) can deal with wrongdoing or ethical problems, including the formation of policies that encourage and protect would-be whistleblowers. However, it is important to distinguish internal reporting about wrongdoing from whistleblowing proper, because the...

Abstract Many scholars have highlighted the individual, organizational and inter-organizational causes of wrongdoing; others focused on its (negative) consequences or analyzed how it can persist spread between organizations. An underlining assumption shared by many those studies is that wrongdoing a deviant, society-damaging phenomenon originating from individual actors’ pursuit undue advantage...