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Making the Punishment Fit the Crime or Taliban Justice? Optimal Penalties without Commitment
Ghosh, Parikshit - eSocialSciences - 2009
penalties arise only in the presence of secondary motives that value punishment in itself. Other motives that are unrelated to … the size of the punishment will also lead to distortions, but those cannot be corrected by restructuring penalties. The …
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Crime and Punishment: An Analysis of Death Penalty
Batra, Bikram Jeet - eSocialSciences - 2006
punishment, and particularly focus on the award and use of the death penalty. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005487891
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Supporting Youth at Risk: A Policy Toolkit for Middle-Income Countries
Cunningham, Wendy; Cohan, Lorena M.; Naudeau, Sophie; … - eSocialSciences; World Bank - 2009
Youth at risk can be defined as individuals between the ages of 12 and 24 who face “environmental, social, and family … advice on how to create and implement effective policies for at-risk youth. Highlighted are 22 policies (six core policies … areas for young people around the world: i) youth unemployment, underemployment, and lack of formal sector employment; ii …
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Corruption
Banerjee, Abhijit; Hanna, Rema; Mullainathan, Sendhil - eSocialSciences - 2012
In this paper, a new framework for analyzing corruption in public bureaucracies is provided. The standard way to model corruption is as an example of moral hazard, which then leads to a focus on better monitoring and stricter penalties with the eradication of corruption as the final goal. An...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010543505
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Penal Strategies and Political Resistance in Colonial and Independent India
Singh, Ujjwal Kumar - eSocialSciences - 2006
This paper will explore the discursive practices surrounding specific laws, trials, and the ideology of punishment in … colonial and independent India. The purpose is to show how through this matrix of law, court and punishment, the penal system …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005487531
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Bondage In Freedom Colonial Plantations in Sounthern India c. 1797-1947
Raman, K. Ravi - eSocialSciences - 2007
Opposing views persist with regard to the emergence of plantations in southern India and the transfer of slave labour to these plantations: the abolition of slavery as an end in itself and, second, as a means to an end. In spite of the fact that slavery had been abolished by the mid-nineteenth...
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The Protection Children from Sexual Offences Bill, 2011
eSocialSciences; Parliamentary Research Service PRS - 2011
Current Status of the Bill: Pending URL:[http://prsindia.org/uploads/media/children%20against%20sexual%20offences.pdf].
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Yes to Justice, No to Death
Rights, PUDR Peoples Union for Democratic - eSocialSciences - 2014
punishment is evolving and is a ‘work in progress’. Starting with serious objections to the arbitrariness inbuilt in awarding …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011133119
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Crimes of Habit: A Report on Custodial Torture in Vijay Vihar Police Station
Rights, PUDR Peoples Union for Democratic - eSocialSciences - 2014
This investigation report unfolds the custodial torture which some boys had to undergo in a police station in outer Delhi.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945246
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The State of the World's Children 2012: Children in an Urban World
United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF - eSocialSciences - 2012
The experience of childhood is increasingly urban. Over half the world’s people – including more than a billion children – now live in cities and towns. This report adds to the growing body of evidence and analysis, from UNICEF and partners, that scarcity and dispossession...
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