Certainty has a greater impact on deterrence than severity of punishment. ... Research underscores the more significant role that certainty plays in deterrence than severity — it is the certainty of being caught that deters a person from committing crime, not the fear of being punished or the severity of the punishment.
No. My boyfriend is in counseling.
Capital punishment (when enacted swiftly) is much more effective at deterring crime (there are many studies on this). Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on your point of view), more prisoners on death row die of old age every year than from lethal injection. Thus, it probably has little effect.
PUNISHMENT is not effective for a child because it tells a child what not to do but it does not tells that what the child must do so , the child do mistakes on mistakes because the child is not knowing what to do!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A good behavior guidance philosophy is to use more reward than punishment. People respond to rewards much more than they respond to punishment.
A misdemeanor is a crime that the state legislature has decreed the punishment for as no more than one year in jail. A felony is a crime that the punishment for is set at more than one year in prison.
Any sentence which includes MORE than one year plus one day in prison as a punishment.
There are some decisions that are more effective if made by a group. Other decisions are more effective if made by individuals.
Conjunctivitis tobramycin is more effective than gentamicin for a cat.
Isopropyl alcohol is more effective for cleaning than acetone.
Charcoal is more effective for filtering water than coke.
Neither procedural law or substantive law are more important than the other. All crime needs to have a known punishment (substantive) and a proper way to get to that punishment (procedural).
Pray. It's much more effective than searching the internet.