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One of the most robust findings in criminology is that increasing the severity of punishment has little deterrent effect. People simply aren’t as sensitive to the potential costs of crime as the rational-choice model predicts they should be, and so efforts to reduce it by cracking down have failed to justify the immense fiscal and social costs of
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Wuthering Heights Act 1 Notes
Overarching Theme: The complexities of the characters in Wuthering Heights
-Heathcliff is portrayed as an embittered and manipulative individual who resorts to cowardly tactics to achieve his desired outcomes, a behaviour likely stemmed from the abuse he experienced from his alcoholic brother.
-The narrative structure,
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Sex addicts who were not abused as children may have had more subtle forms of sexualization projected on them by a parent or they may have felt so unloved or undesirable that they now look to sexual contact as a quick source of comfort.