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Contract Cheating in Canada: A Comprehensive Overview [PDF]

, 2022
AbstractIn this chapter I present an overview of contract cheating in Canada over half a century, from 1970 to the early 2020s. I offer details about a failed attempt at legislation to make ghostwritten essays and exams illegal in Ontario in 1972. Then, I highlight a 1989 criminal case, noted as being the first of its kind in Canada, and possibly the ...
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Why do Public Debates Escalate? Trigger Points and the Moral Dynamics of “Hot Politics”

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Escalating, emotionally charged, and moralized forms of controversy are a central feature of contemporary politics. Our study develops a framework for understanding how political debates between ordinary citizens become heated; why certain issues provoke particularly strong emotions; and how this affective potential is weaponized by ...
Linus Westheuser, Thomas Lux, Steffen Mau   +2 more
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Reducing undergraduate students’ trust of commercial contract cheating websites with an academic support literacy intervention

International Journal for Educational Integrity
The acquisition of products and services from the commercial contract cheating industry has an extensive history, with the industry experiencing significant growth during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Sydney Kreitz, Brenda M. Stoesz
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Contract cheating: a survey of Australian university staff [PDF]

Studies in Higher Education, 2018
If media reports are to be believed, Australian universities are facing a significant and growing problem of students outsourcing their assessment to third parties, a behaviour commonly known as ‘contract cheating’. Teaching staff are integral to preventing and managing this emerging form of cheating, yet there has been little evidence-based research ...
Rowena Harper, T. Bretag, C. Ellis, P. Newton, P. Rozenberg, S. Saddiqui, K. van Haeringen   +6 more
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Insights from the Presidential Addresses to the Agricultural Economics Society

Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Society's published presidential addresses have embraced a wide range of subject matter, reflecting a ‘road well travelled’ in agricultural economics. The areas covered include the development and use of data and statistics, lessons from history, sectoral analysis, land economics, international trade and international development.
David Blandford
wiley   +1 more source

Building Academic Integrity: Evaluating the Effectiveness of a New Framework to Address and Prevent Contract Cheating

Societies
Academic integrity is a cornerstone of education systems, yet the rise of contract cheating poses significant challenges for higher education institutions.
Deepani B. Guruge, Rajan Kadel, Samar Shailendra, Aakanksha Sharma   +3 more
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De Stupro: First Insights on Rape and Its Prosecution in Maltese Courts (1701–10)

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article constitutes a first in‐depth investigation of rape and the prosecution of this crime in early eighteenth‐century Malta. The research, which is based on sixteen rape accusations claimed at the secular courts in Malta between 1701 and 1710, has analysed cases categorized as ‘simple rape’, ‘violent rape’ and rape committed under the ...
Vanessa Buhagiar
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Sustainability Controls as Technologies of Actorhood: Constructing the Responsible Supplier in Global Supply Chains Le contrôle de la durabilité comme technologie d'actorialité : façonner le fournisseur responsable dans les chaînes d'approvisionnement mondiales

Contemporary Accounting Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines how accounting and control practices constitute and distribute agency and responsibility for sustainability in global supply chains. Drawing on a field study in the fashion industry, we describe the sustainability control practices used by a major buyer firm vis‐à‐vis its suppliers and trace their evolution from a ...
Martin Messner, Marek Reuter, Torkel Strömsten   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Managing the mutations: academic misconduct Australia, New Zealand, and the UK

International Journal for Educational Integrity, 2020
Academic misconduct is a problem of growing concern across the tertiary education sector. While plagiarism has been the most common form of academic misconduct, the advent of software programs to detect plagiarism has seen the problem of misconduct ...
Melanie Birks, Jane Mills, Steph Allen, Stephen Tee   +3 more
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Trust and fairness in platform–supplier contracts: Navigating supplier concerns in the sharing economy

Decision Sciences, EarlyView.
Abstract Trust and fairness are critical to the sustainable development of the sharing economy, particularly in platform–supplier relationships, where numerous individual suppliers offer access to their durable assets without transferring ownership. Motivated by the real‐world phenomenon of personalized wages and informed through direct interactions ...
Ying Yin, Xishu Li
wiley   +1 more source