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Wanda Teays, Phd.  is a Philosophy Professor Emerita at Mount Saint Mary’s University, Los Angeles. She has written in the areas of Bioethics, Human Rights, Critical Reasoning, and Ethics and Film. She is the author of a number of books, including Business Ethics Through Movies: A Case Study Approach, Seeing the Light: Exploring Ethics Through Movies, and Doctors and Torture: Medicine at the Crossroads.Her edited volumes include Analyzing Violence Against Women as well as The Ethical University and Global Bioethics and Human Rights: Contemporary Perspectives (co-edited with Alison Dundes Renteln) and Ethics in the AI, Technology, and Information Age (co-edited with Michael Boylan).

• Part I . Introduction to the Text.- 1. Introduction.- Part II . The Practice.-  2. Overview.-  3. Hoods and Sandbags.- Part III. Historical Perspectives.- 4. Jeremy Bentham The Panopticon.- 5. John Stuart Mill On Societal Benefits.- 6. Immanuel Kant On Punishment.- 7. Aristotle: On Reformation and Rehabilitation.- 8. John Rawls On Justice.- Part 4.  Contemporary Perspectives.- 9. Michel Foucault  Punishment and Power.- 10. Tom L. Beauchamp and James F. Childress Principles of Biomedical Ethics.- 11. Michael Boylan The Impact of Worldviews.- 12. Nel Noddings The Components of Evil.- 13. Claudia Card The Atrocity Paradigm.- Part 5. Principles and Recommendations.- 14. Principles and Ethics Codes.- 15. Recommendations.