Abstract A psychological tax treatment goes beyond the traditional deterrence model and explains tax morale as a complicated interaction between taxpayers and the government. As a contractual relationship implies duties and rights for each contract party‚ tax compliance is increased by sticking to the fiscal exchange paradigm between the citizens and the state. Citizens are willing to honestly declare income even if they do not receive a full public good equivalent to tax payments as long as the
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Capital Punishment: Moral‚ Effective‚ or Barbaric? Debra Johnson PHI103 Informal Logic Instructor: Philip Bence June 11‚ 2013 Capital Punishment: Moral‚ Effective‚ or Barbaric? Public support for capital punishment has eroded across the nation‚ largely because Americans are ambivalent. Many think that capital punishment is acceptable‚ but they are apprehensive about innocent people being executed. As the political debate of the past two decades centered on wrongful convictions and
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------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Table of Contents Cover page ….…………………………………………………………………… 1 Table of contents………………………………………………………………… 2 Preliminaries……………………………………………………………………… 3 Sanctions‚ punishment and deterrence ………… ………………………………… 4 Corporations and corporate crime ……………………………………………… 5 Imprisonment as the supreme criminal sanction ………………………………… 5-6 Procedural deficiencies in taking action against a corporation …………………. 6-7 Stifling the role of a director
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Driant Hoti‚ Genti Koqinaj October 24‚ 2011 Comparing Death Penalty States to Non-Death Penalty States The death penalty is one of the most controversial topics of the 21th century. Since the reinstatement of capital punishment in 1977 until today‚ 1‚234 detainees have been convicted with the death penalty (“World Coalition against the Death Penalty‚” 2). On the 5th November 2005‚ around 500 protesters demonstrated against the death penalty (Rubac par.1). Those protests are quite often
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Denmark‚ Switzerland and Belgium have not carried out executions since the early part of the century‚ yet these countries have not experienced a rise in crime rates. But the retributive value of capital punishment dismisses the question of deterrence. Deterrence works only if forbidden acts are illegal as well as immoral. So the easily frightened will not break the law‚ but “the fearless will break the law‚ the irrational will break the law‚ and all others will break the law”‚ it has been argued
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Ron Fridell states‚ "The basic principles of deterrence are that punishments are necessary to deter crime and encourage law abiding behavior. Punishment must also fit the crime with more serious crimes requiring more serious punishments. (61) I agree with the author because capital punishment serves
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Citizens are being arrested every single day for an unlimited variety of reasons. The reason can be anything from abuse of a family member‚ robbery‚ drug possession‚ or murder. The criminal system has four ways to justify punishment. Retribution‚ deterrence‚ rehabilitation‚ and social protection are ways in which punishment is justified. Each of the four has its own style of punishment together with its own pros and cons for each Citizen. By definition‚ retribution can mean an act with a moral
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being committed against our society. What it boils down to is what one’s concept of deterrence is and recognizes its purpose. General deterrence is where crime is prevented in general to society as a whole. Knowledge of a specific law or perhaps knowing of others who have committed similar crimes and the consequences of their actions can be enough to prevent a transgression. Now in the matter of specific deterrence where the perpetrator is directly punished for the infraction against the victim
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and the use of DNA testing in attaining their freedom; (2) emphasizing the unjustness of the Capital Punishment system due to the arbitrary‚ racial and geographically biased nature of the process; And also (3) It shows that the evidence backing up deterrence as a major benefit of the death penalty is exaggerated and unsubstantiated. With a specific look at how “future dangerousness” plays a part in keeping the death penalty around and how to change that. Last it will look at the rising costs associated
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the community programs based on the rehabilitation model‚ deterrence programs do nothing to address the criminogenic needs of offenders nor their anti-social cognitions (MacKenzie 2011). Instead‚ proponents of this approach believe that the severity of the treatment will‚ in itself‚ deter people from committing future crimes (Patterson 2012). However‚ all of the studies chosen for this report concluded that treatment based on a deterrence model did not lead to a significant reduction in recidivism
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