The Ethics of State Responsibility: A Deontological Analysis of Deaths in Police Custody

• In Event: Democratic Problems

Brief Overview

This proposal applies Kantian deontological ethics to analyze state responsibility in deaths occurring under police custody, arguing that such cases represent moral violations of duty and human dignity rather than procedural failures.

Authors

• Tanusree Bhattacharjee, Iowa State University

• Koushik Chandra Howlader, Iowa State University