Commentary: Punishment and Palmer

Commentary: punishment and palmer.

uncaned boys. 26 per cent. of the boys studied had been classified as delinquent in police records by a date at which their mean age was 15 years 4 months. Delinquent boys were significantly heavier smokers than non-delinquents, but the difference was not as marked as that between caned and uncaned boys. There was an apparent decline in smoking over a year. This may be due to errors of recall b...

The eternal antithesis: a commentary on donahoe, palmer, and burgos.

Some years ago I built a large demonstration pigeon chamber that was constructed of transparent Plexiglas on three vertical sides and the top. The intelligence panel and the bottom were opaque. The chamber was placed in a small room in the laboratory, and a pigeon was trained to peck a transilluminated key in the usual manner with presentations of a few seconds access to grain. Key pecking was ...

Commentary: The Emerging Neuroscience of Third-Party Punishment

William Palmer

of crime ! He fell by the hand of a friend and boon companion. Six months after, on the 27th of May, 1856, providentially for the ends of justice and the interests of society, the perpetrator of this foul murder was convicted and sentenced to execution; and, on the 14th of last month, he, in the presence of 50,000 persons, suffered an ignominious death upon the scaffold. We might well leave him...

Robin Palmer

This article focuses on struggles to secure and defend the land rights of the poor in Africa. A very brief introduction sketches the impact of liberalisation on land in Africa, then looks at the deeper context of land reform, and at the current role of donors. The article goes on to look at detailed case studies of Uganda, Mozambique and South Africa and examines reasons for successes and failu...