Punishment and Respect

a comparison of teachers and supervisors, with respect to teacher efficacy and reflection

supervisors play an undeniable role in training teachers, before starting their professional experience by preparing them, at the initial years of their teaching by checking their work within the proper framework, and later on during their teaching by assessing their progress. but surprisingly, exploring their attributes, professional demands, and qualifications has remained a neglected theme i...

Penalties and sex reassignment surgery (SRS) after a punishment crime

One of important subject and discussion issue in medical sciences that caused occurrence of new legal and jurisprudence issues in the society, is sex reassignment surgery (SRS). Although in the past, these discussions have been existed more or less, nowadays due to technological progress and medical science achievements, new aspects of this subject have emerged. Despite different views concerni...

Crime and Uncertain Punishment

Crime and Uncertain Punishment We consider agents in a country in an early stage of transition from a planned to a market economy. As the transition is in progress, the nature of the government’s policies are unknown to the agents. Property rights once held by the state have already been transferred to the agents, with each agent owning one firm. However, the agents are uncertain of the level o...

Crime and Punishment

Punishment – and beyond

This paper argues that the “Economics of Crime” concentrates too much on punishment as a policy to fight crime, which is unwise for several reasons. There are important instances in which punishment simply cannot reduce crime. Several feasible alternatives to punishment exist, such as offering positive incentives or handing out awards for law abiding behavior. These alternative approaches tend ...