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Ben Jones

Pennsylvania State University

University Park

State College, PA 16802

United States

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

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Scholarly Papers (13)

1.

Death Penalty Abolition, the Right to Life, and Necessity

Jones, Ben. Forthcoming. "Death Penalty Abolition, the Right to Life, and Necessity." Human Rights Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12142-022-00677-x
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 04 Jan 2023
Ben Jones
Pennsylvania State University
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capital punishment, criminal law, death penalty, future dangerousness, human rights law, necessity, right to life

2.

The Republican Party, Conservatives, and the Future of Capital Punishment

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 108, no. 2 (2018): 223-252
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 19 Jul 2017 Last Revised: 26 Jul 2018
Ben Jones
Pennsylvania State University
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Death Penalty, Capital Punishment, Republican, Conservatives, Supreme Court, Criminal Justice Reform

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Authenticity in Political Discourse

Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 19(2): 489-504
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 27 May 2019
Ben Jones
Pennsylvania State University
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Authenticity, Hypocrisy, Representation, Democracy, Rhetoric, Deception

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Police-Generated Killings: The Gap between Ethics and Law

Forthcoming in Political Research Quarterly
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 26 Mar 2021
Ben Jones
Pennsylvania State University
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criminal law, deadly force, killing, law enforcement, police, self-defense

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Apocalypse without God: Apocalyptic Thought, Ideal Politics, and the Limits of Utopian Hope

Jones, Ben. Apocalypse without God: Apocalyptic Thought, Ideal Politics, and the Limits of Utopian Thought. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009037037
Number of pages: 242 Posted: 04 Jan 2023
Ben Jones
Pennsylvania State University
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Apocalypse, Engels, Hobbes, Ideal Theory, Machiavelli, Utopia

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Applying the Imminence Requirement to Police

Jones, Ben. 2023. "Applying the Imminence Requirement to Police." Criminal Justice Ethics. https://doi.org/10.1080/0731129X.2023.2187188
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 14 Mar 2023
Ben Jones
Pennsylvania State University
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criminal law, deadly force, imminence, law enforcement, police, Tennessee v. Garner

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The Ethics of Defunding the Police

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 30 Jul 2025
Ben Jones and Désirée Lim
Pennsylvania State University and Pennsylvania State University
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Black Lives Matter, defund, force, necessity, police, proportionality

8.

Drones and Dirty Hands

Preventive Force: Drones, Targeted Killing, and the Transformation of Contemporary Warfare (New York: New York University Press, 2016)
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 17 May 2019
Ben Jones and John M. Parrish
Pennsylvania State University and Loyola Marymount University
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Drones, Terrorism, Civilians, Policy, Morality, Ethics, Dirty hands

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The Lesser Evil Argument for (and Against) Political Obligation

Law and Philosophy, 0[10.1007/s10982-024-09518-z]
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 04 Feb 2025
Ben Jones and Manshu Tian
Pennsylvania State University and University of Cambridge
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complicity, lesser evil, justice, nonideal theory, philosophical anarchism, political obligation

10.

Political Activism and Research Ethics

Jones, Ben. 'Political Activism and Research Ethics.' Journal of Applied Philosophy, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 24 May 2019
Ben Jones
Pennsylvania State University
Downloads 47 (1,097,529)

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activism, bias, diversity, politics, professional ethics

11.

Building Authentic Power: A Study of the Campaign to Repeal Connecticut's Death Penalty

Politics, Groups, and Identities 5(2): 321-342. doi/10.1080/21565503.2015.1112294
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 20 Dec 2017 Last Revised: 14 Apr 2019
Khalilah L Brown-Dean and Ben Jones
Quinnipiac University and Pennsylvania State University
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Criminal justice, power, social movements, American politics, death penalty, Troy Davis, murder victims’ families, NAACP

12.

Narrow and Wide Necessity

Analysis, 2025[10.1093/analys/anaf096]
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 29 Nov 2025
Ben Jones
Pennsylvania State University
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Defensive Force, Necessity, Police, Proportionality, Self-Defense, War

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The Imminence Divide: Public Judgments of Deadly Force by Police and Civilians

Number of pages: 25
Ben Jones and Nicholas Goldrosen
Pennsylvania State University and Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge
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Policing, Use of force, Imminence, Public opinion, Legitimacy