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…"unpopular" and "not necessary". Until the Homicide Act 1957 all persons convicted of murder were automatically sentenced to death. By s5 of that Act, certain types of murder were singled out and designated "capital murder". These continued to be punishable…

…: The Talmudic rabbis, with their great concern for the sanctity of human life, were openly opposed to capital punishment. But, since they had to recognize the letter of the Torah law, they sought a variety of means to render these penal laws inoperative…

…on the Punishment and Prevention of the Crime of Genocide of 1946, that "genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group…" (p. 1). Genocide represents a horror so special…

…and depravity was to establish laws that bountifully rewarded actions that benefit others and the state and ruthlessly punish all actions that harmed others or the state. For Confucius, power was something to be wielded for the benefit of the people, but for Han…

…believe The Handmaid's Tale, written by Margaret Atwood, falls in the second category. Issues raised in this novel such as manipulation, public punishment, ignorance, and pollution are problems we face in the world today. Atwood's conception of the future…

…, Positive Punishers and Negative Punishers. When looking at Positive and Negative Reinforces and Punishers it is important not to associate the words with value judgments. When using these words in a training capacity they should be viewed as the addition…

…, Capital and the raw materials of an economy. They are some difficulties when trying to classify countries as rich and poor, to compare the rate of development in different countries over time, the measurement of real per capita and real living standard between…

…, the princely capital. Vlad Tepes followed his father and lived six years at the princely court. In 1442, for political reasons, Dracula and his younger brother Radu were taken hostage by the Sultan Murad II; Dracula was held in Turkey until 1448, while his brother…

…of strengthening a code of ethics is to make it clear that the company will punish violators and reward ethical acts. A company that fires a manager for giving kickbacks will find that others who are guilty of this behavior will stop, and those who are merely thinking…

…, thereby resulting in a moral hazard where the poor are more dependent on the government. A massive redistribution in wealth could result in many forgoing the opportunity to create capital. There will always be entrepreneurs who, despite the perceived punishment…