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Showing 1 to 20 of 73 for “"punishing"”.
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Negative Discriminative Stimulus as Punishing Consequence: A new approach to behavioural change
… discriminative stimulus will function as a punishing consequence. Pigeons were trained on a multiple schedule to discriminate between a positive discriminative stimulus (S+) signalling the presence of food in one component, and a negative discriminative stimulus (S-), signalling the absence …
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Punishing the Guilty and the Guiltless: An Investigation of Consumer Deviance Inspired by Company Wrongdoing
… company that perpetrated the wrongdoing (i.e., "punishing the guilty"), but also the spillover effect on other companies that have not directly wronged an individual (i.e., "punishing the guiltless"). It is posited that wrongdoing of marketplace entities may contribute to wider-spread consumer …
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Forging a Punishing State: The Punitive Turn in U.S. Criminal and Social Policy, 1968--1980
"This dissertation examines two intertwined recent phenomena: welfare state retrenchment and burgeoning carceral institutions. Through research on seminal struggles over welfare, drug, and criminal sentencing policy, it chronicles a profound shift during the 1970s where programs that championed …
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Forging a punishing state: The punitive turn in U.S. criminal and social policy, 1968-1980
This dissertation examines two intertwined recent phenomena: welfare state retrenchment and burgeoning carceral institutions. Through research on seminal struggles over welfare, drug, and criminal sentencing policy, it chronicles a profound shift during the 1970s where programs that championed …
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Punishing the homeless: The constitutionality of the criminalisation of homelessness in the City of Cape Town
This research is a doctrinal study into Section 2(2), read with section 23, of the City of Cape Town's Streets Public Places and the Prevention of Nuisances By-law of 2007 and whether it violates the right to human dignity entrenched in section 10 of the Constitution. The provision prohibits …
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Punishing the poor again?: irregularity, the 'criminalisation of migration' and precarious labour markets in the UK and Germany
The increasingly punitive nature of immigration control across the Western world and the overrepresentation of foreign nationals in European prisons has revitalised criminological interest in issues of migration. Alessandro De Giorgi (2010: 153) and others contend that restrictive, 'illegalising' …
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A Correlational Study of the Relationship Between Adolescent Religiosity and Adolescent Perception of Parental Behavior in Antigua and Barbuda
… paternal supporting, controlling, demanding, and punishing behavior; (b) adolescents' perception of maternal supporting, controlling, demanding, and punishing behavior; (c) the ten dimensions of adolescents' religiosity and three predictor variables of age, sex, and religious affiliation.</p> …
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Corruption and political marketing: a game theoretical approach
… of society’s educational level and of different punishing structures. We find that: i) an ill suited punishing scheme may increase state capture corruption; ii) the more educated the politician’s constituency is, the less lenient to corruption she will be; and iii) the more sensitive to marginal …
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Religious Coping and Depression Among Blacks and Whites After Sexual Abuse
… predicted mastery. Negative religious coping (punishing God reappraisal, passive deferral, and anger at God) was inversely associated with both optimism and mastery. Multivariate analyses of variance revealed that CSA participants reported marginally lower levels of mastery, higher punishing …
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The Effects of Cognitive Moral Development and Reinforcement Contingencies on Ethical Decision Making
… contingencies: rewarding ethical behavior (RE), punishing unethical behavior (PU), rewarding unethical behavior (RU), and punishing ethical behavior (PE). It was hypothesized that RE and PU would encourage ethical behavior, while RU and PE would encourage unethical behavior. An additional …
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When the Invisible Punishing Machine is everywhere ... : the mechanism of social control (mass incarceration, institutionalized racism, slavery and repression) in the USA shapes the individual as well as the social space
… following poetic statement: "When the Invisible Punishing Machine is everywhere, creeping into my body, life and spaces, it is like living in a colossal architectural nightmare", this thesis serves first as a testimony of the author's personal stories. Second it illuminates the machine as a …
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The Role of Harm, Detectability, and Knowledge of HIV Non-Disclosure Laws in Affecting Punishment Recommendations for HIV Law Violators
… may influence laypersons’ motivations for punishing someone with HIV who violates an HIV non-disclosure law. In addition, the study examined how knowledge or no knowledge of an HIV non-disclosure law by the law violator influenced punishment recommendations. A 2 (Harm) X 2 (Detectability) X …
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The criminalisation of cartel conduct in South Africa and the United Kingdom
Preventing cartels from forming or detecting and punishing existing cartels should therefore be an important task in every country. This paper shows how South Africa and the United Kingdom deal with this task by introducing criminal sanctions into their competition law for individuals engaging in …
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Taking Cloaks to the Cleaners: A Case Study of Yelp v. Hadeed Carpet Cleaning Reveals the Need for Stronger Unmasking Standards
… protections of speech and societal interest in punishing harmful speakers for their misdeeds.
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Domestic Violence in the Popular Discourse: A Victim -Centered Problem
… focusing on preventing abuse before it starts or punishing the abuser after it happens, popular discourse primarily focuses on the victims' needs and problems. Publishing practices and politics contribute to the marginalization of the sociological and feminist perspectives that emphasize the …
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An Experimental Analysis of Superstitious Behavior in College Males
… to test the effectiveness of the shock as a punishing stimulus. Superstitious responses seemed to occur, but Ss of SG showed response patterns typical of punishment, while Ss of RSG showed increases in rates of responding but not decreases. It was concluded that superstitious responses appear …
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Studi tentang orientasi menghukum anak nakal yang dilakukan penyidik anak di unit pelayanan perempuan dan anak Polres Malang
… to determine the orientation of the pattern of punishing the child investigating officer and to know the things that cause the orientation of punishing the child investigating officer PunishOrientation is the view of punishing, attention and inclination to punish, at the time of the adaptive …
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Disenfranchising the Black Other: A Critique of American Drug Laws
… for their status as Other. Disproportionately punishing them for a habit in which people of all races participate has created a class without the ability to participate in the system which would allow them to call for changes in these policies. Drug laws target the outcomes of poverty, a …
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Electoral backlash against climate policy : a natural experiment on retrospective voting and local resistance to public policy
… turbines. Voters also discriminate by correctly punishing the level of government responsible for the policy, providing evidence that voters are informed. I conclude that the spatial distribution of citizens' policy preferences can affect democratic accountability and exacerbate political …
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