1. Responsibility and Sentencing
The Criminal Code of Canada has a special chapter called "ATTEMPTS--CONSPIRACIES "ACCESSORIES-, where it refers to attempted crime and the relevant punishments. ... If the punishments are not proportionally assigned, the state would in turn be encouraging individuals to engage in the most serious crime! ... As Italian criminologist and economist Beccaria argues, if punishments were not proportional, then the state would in fact encourage and create more crimes! ... If forced to choose between a less-serious crime and a more-serious crime (that are assigned the same punishment), we woul...
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