Newark, N.J. — With no shortage of human-on-human misdeeds, criminologists haven't typically concerned themselves with crimes against wildlife and the environment.
This bit of bedside reading concludes that the credit crunch was down to "human mistakes, misjudgments and misdeeds that resulted in systemic failures".
Courts in other countries, such as the Netherlands and Britain, have recently become more active in punishing firms for misdeeds abroad and human-rights campaigners have taken note.
Another reason, I think, has to do with Mr. Herzog's seemingly unshakable faith in human beings, who for all their misdeeds at times reach a state of exaltedness.
He has installed a party pal as president; required public buildings to display official propaganda; restricted the powers of the constitutional court; expropriated private pension funds; and collared all the seats on a new media council (which can levy fines for ill-defined misdeeds such as offending "human dignity").
International human rights investigators have also documented serious misdeeds on both sides.
The motivation for these misdeeds is clear, and clearly human.
Schweppenstette, you are a truly terrible human being but I admire your dedication to misdeeds.
At the same time, however, he distanced himself from his party's past misdeeds, vowing to uphold democracy, protect human rights and defend freedom of expression.
Was Auden shifting moral responsibility from totalitarian evildoers to past misdeeds by those under attack and to a universal human egotism in which everyone was more or less equally complicit?
His appointment sparked protests by human rights groups, who expressed fears that Mr. Macedo would cover up past military misdeeds and "militarize" the civilian police.
