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Tax Audit and Tax Compliance, Does Religiosity Moderate?

International Journal of Business Reflections
The purpose of this paper was to investigate the impact of tax audit on tax compliance and examine the moderating effect of religiosity on the associations between tax audit and tax compliance in Pakistan.
Muhammad Usman, Sonia Sattar, Jehanger Hanif   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Two Theories of Deterrent Punishment

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2017
This Article inquires into the justification of state punishment. In developing this question it relies upon two premises. The first premise is that, to justify its extreme institutional costs, state punishment must deter crime to some sufficient degree.1 The second premise is a moral principle. It is a variation of the prohibition on using people as a
openaire   +3 more sources

Anger or Fear? Effects of Discrete Emotions on Deviant Security Behavior [PDF]

, 2017
Deterrence theory has received considerable attention in recent years. However, scholars have begun to call for research beyond the deterrence approach on security behaviors, and argue that the theory of emotion should not be omitted from information ...
Hsu, Carol, Luo, Xin, Xu, Feng
core   +2 more sources

Do Sustainable Agricultural Practices Boost Production and Technical Efficiency? A Case Study of Coffee Smallholders in Peru

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Smallholder agriculture remains a cornerstone for economic development and poverty reduction in Latin America. Their transition to sustainable agricultural production is critical in the face of the environmental challenges posed by conventional farming practices and is a key pathway to achieving the United Nations' Sustainable Development ...
Gabriela Carbajo‐Alvarez, Gabriel Rosero, Bernhard Brümmer   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Phylogenomics, historical biogeography, and diversification of leaf traits in the Malagasy‐endemic genus Uncarina (Pedaliaceae)

American Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
Abstract Premise Uncarina contains 14 species of woody plants endemic to Madagascar. Its occurrence across dryland biomes on the island make it an interesting system to study the diversification of the flora. Methods Using samples of all species and 512 nuclear loci, we reconstructed phylogenetic trees to examine species relationships and assess their ...
Jeffrey P. Rose, John G. Zaborsky, Nisa Karimi, Kenneth J. Sytsma   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Rule-Based Model for Victim Prediction [PDF]

, 2020
In this paper, we proposed a novel automated model, called Vulnerability Index for Population at Risk (VIPAR) scores, to identify rare populations for their future shooting victimizations. Likewise, the focused deterrence approach identifies vulnerable individuals and offers certain types of treatments (e.g., outreach services) to prevent violence in ...
arxiv   +1 more source

An Experimental Study of Influential Elements on Cyberloafing from General Deterrence Theory Perspective Case Study: Tehran Subway Organization

, 2015
Cyber-loafing is a virtually new phenomenon from the old problem of loafing at work places. The internet has alone made remarkable changes in today’s organizations, although has brought many concerns and pitfalls for efficiency and effectiveness in ...
Hosseini Mirza Hassan, Daraei Mohammad Reza, Mostafa Abdol-Alivandi Farkhad   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Implications of state policy context for the well‐being of immigrant families with young children

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract There is notable variation in state‐level social policy exclusions for immigrant parents and their children. Little research has investigated how these exclusions impair the well‐being of immigrant families. This study examined how state‐level social policy exclusions for immigrants are associated with the well‐being of immigrant parents and ...
Kevin Ferreira van Leer, Caitlin Lombardi, Rachel Chazan‐Cohen, Vanessa Esquivel, Prisila Isais, Anne Berset   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Link Between Economic Growth, Crime and Deterrence Measures in Nigeria

Studia Universitatis Vasile Goldis Arad, Seria Stiinte Economice, 2016
The level of crime in Nigeria has become devastating and in order to put more sanity into the economy and the country at large, the Government has embarked on different deterrence measures in curbing crime.
Adekoya Adenuga Fabian, Razak Nor Azam Abdul   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Does Informational Equivalence Preserve Strategic Behavior? Experimental Results on Trockel’s Model of Selten’s Chain Store Story

Games, 2020
The purpose of this study is to experimentally test Trockel’s game, which is a modelling of the classical Chain Store Game (CSG), and determine whether one of the two theories of Equality and Deterrence may better account for the observed behavior.
Papatya Duman
doaj   +1 more source