Articles by Maitreyi Misra

Maitreyi Misra heads the work on death penalty mitigation as well as mental health and criminal justice at Project 39A, a criminal justice program at the National Law University, Delhi. She is the lead author of Project 39A's report, Deathworthy: A Mental Health Perspective of the Death Penalty.

Does care have to be at the periphery if crime is at the centre?

January 30, 2024

By a feminist approach, I specifically mean the ethics of care articulated by the philosopher Virginia Held, which understands that people are intrinsically interrelated, as opposed to the model of the independent, self-sufficient individual of liberal theory.