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Shannon Shipp argues for the “Modified Vendetta Sanction” as a method of corporate-collective punishment. He claims that this sanction evades the difficulties of Peter French's “Hester Prynne Sanction.” In this paper I argue that, though the Modified Vendetta Sanction evades the problems that Shipp poses for it, it fails to evade some of the difficulties that I pose for French's method. Moreover, there are some difficulties that plague the Modified Vendetta Sanction which do not count against the Hester Prynne Sanction. Therefore, if my analysis holds, then Shipp's method neither improves significantly on the “Hester Prynne Sanction” nor is unproblematic in its own right. The significance of this paper is that it foils yet another attempt by some corporate punishment theorists to establish the plausibility of a method of corporate-collective punishment.
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J. Angelo Corlett has authored papers on ethics, social/political philosophy, history of philosophy, value theory, epistemology and metaphysics. His papers appear in such journals as the Public Affairs Quarterly, the Journal of Business Ethics, Business & Professional Ethics Journal, the American Psychologist, Idealistic Studies, the American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and Medicine. He is the editor of and contributor to two forthcoming books: Equality and Liberty: Analyzing Rawls and Nozick and Analyzing Marx: The Moral Assessment of Capitalist Exploitation.
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Corlett, J.A. The “Modified Vendetta Sanction” as a method of corporate-collective punishment. J Bus Ethics 8, 937–942 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00383428
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00383428