Research Concept, Proposal or Suggestion
Research Concept , Proposal or Suggestion for Graduate Students, Researchers or Those Interested in Reducing Incarceration Research concept: In order to determine the acceptability of community traditional judicial corporal punishment in lieu of incarceration, the following research suggestion or proposal is submitted: Visit a prison or jail in any country and survey a significant number of prisoners regarding their preferences, if they had a preference in any future criminal punishment scenario, between one year in prison or jail versus 40 lashes with a leather whip in the traditional American manner, in public, after all current due process guarantees were provided, displaying to the interviewee at the time of the interview a photo of the whip to be used and applied to the back by a healthy young law enforcement official of average height, weight and upper body strength. The public judicial corporal punishment would be witnessed and supervised by the sente...