Oh how I agree with you Space cat. I know employers tell lies (or perhaps they are just being "economical" with the truth??)
John, 'Immediate and certain' has nothing to do with deterrent working or failing.
Deterrent does not depend on getting nicked in 15 minutes or twenty days.
Surely you're not suggesting it does.????
Do you think that places with Capital Punishment for murder have more, or fewer, murders than places without?
Behavioural science is a complex subject.
But one thing that it has established, is that severity of punishment has little deterrent effect,
and that consequences have to be certain, immediate and personal to achieve maximum effect.
But one thing that it has established, is that severity of punishment has little deterrent effect, and that consequences have to be certain, immediate and personal to achieve maximum effect.