A Legal Approach to Tackling Contract Cheating?

Autor/inn/en	Draper, Michael J.; Newton, Philip M.
Titel	A Legal Approach to Tackling Contract Cheating?
Quelle	In: International Journal for Educational Integrity, 13 (2017), Artikel 11 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Newton, Philip M.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1833-2595
DOI	10.1007/s40979-017-0022-5
Schlagwörter	Contracts; Cheating; Laws; Foreign Countries; Standards; Higher Education; Educational Quality; Legal Problems; Services; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Vertrag; Prellen; Law; Recht; Ausland; Standard; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Dienstleistung; Großbritannien
Abstract	The phenomenon of contract cheating presents, potentially, a serious threat to the quality and standards of Higher Education around the world. There have been suggestions, cited below, to tackle the problem using legal means, but we find that current laws are not fit for this purpose. In this article we present a proposal for a specific new law to target contract cheating, which could be enacted in most jurisdictions. We test our proposed new law against a number of issues that would need to be considered before any legal approach could be successful; would changing the legal status of contract cheating make it less likely to happen? Could this be achieved in a specific way? If so, who should actually be prosecuted and what offence are they committing? Would it actually address the causes of contract cheating? We suggest some answers to these questions, but then also identify a number of unintended potential consequences. We therefore additionally consider whether a legal approach is possible or even desirable. We conclude that a legal approach to contract cheating is possible, and, on balance, appropriate. Using UK law as an example, we offer a specific suggestion to lawmakers, around the world, for how this might be achieved, and conclude that the most successful approach would be to focus largely on a law targeting the providers of contract cheating, in particular commercial services. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01