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  1. Feb 10, 2006 · Coercion, he says, is a kind of necessity in which the activities of one agent — the coercer — make something necessary for another agent. The “necessity of coercion” is that in which “a thing must be, when someone is forced by some agent, so that he is not able to do the contrary” (ibid.).

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  2. Sep 15, 2024 · What makes coercion so effective, and why do some people resort to coercive tactics while others fall victim to them? At the heart of coercion lies the concept of power dynamics. Power psychology explores how individuals and groups exert control over others, and coercion is one of the tools in this power playbook.

  3. Feb 10, 2006 · Coercion is typically thought to carry with it several important implications, including that it diminishes the targeted agent's freedom and responsibility, and that it is a (pro tanto) wrong and/or violation of right. Nonetheless, few believe that it is always unjustified, since it seems that no society could function without some authorized uses of coercion.

  4. Jan 27, 2011 · 1 Introduction. Coercion, as a topic in moral and political theory, remains as important as it is problematic. 1 By its very nature coercion inflicts an intrusive injury on the person subjected to it: coercion is more than merely unpleasant or unwelcome, it is downright hostile to the individual concerned (cf. Lamond 2000, p.61).

    • Jan-Willem van der Rijt
    • J.W.vanderRijt@uva.nl
    • 2011
  5. Dec 4, 2014 · Background In recent years, the attention on the use of coercion in mental health care has increased. The use of coercion is common and controversial, and involves many complex ethical challenges. The research question in this study was: What kind of ethical challenges related to the use of coercion do health care practitioners face in their daily clinical work? Methods We conducted seven ...

    • Marit Helene Hem, Bert Molewijk, Reidar Pedersen
    • 2014
  6. First, if coercion only occurs when one agent proposes to violate another’s rights, or if they fail to meet some other sort of moral obligation, it makes the definition of coercion, and more importantly its moral wrongness, parasitic on these prior moral wrongs. 36 Yet this is to divorce the moral wrongness of coercion from the implications that it has on the voluntariness of the target’s ...

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  8. The purpose of this article is to examine the concepts of power, coercion, and freedom from a behavior analysis perspective and to suggest the expansion of the definition of coercion in part to account for changing technology and methods of coercion. In particular, the article focuses on addressing limitations of Goldiamond's (1976) definition ...

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