Social interactions provide a set of incentives for regulating individual behavior. Chief among these is stigma, the status loss and discrimination that results from the display of stigmatized attributes or behaviors. The stigmatization of behavior is the enforcement mechanism behind social...

This work is an entry for the second edition of Sage's Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society. It explains the nature of the problems of corruption and, more specifically, extortion and their ethical implications. The entry also compares and contrasts extortion and bribery, the two main...

The use of a taser by law enforcement can substitute for either a gun (a more-violent technology) or a mildly-violent technology (such as pepper spray or hands-on tactics). Which is used affects both the severity of harm when used and the amount of resistance, which affects how often it must be...