International Journal for Educational Integrity volume 13, Article number: 3 ( 2017 ) | Download Citation

Many strategies have already been proposed to address the utilization of Essay Mills along with other ‘contract cheating’ services by students. These services generally offer bespoke custom-written essays or any other assignments to students in exchange for a fee. There were calls for the employment of legal methods to tackle the problem. Here we determine whether the UK Fraud Act (2006) could be used www.essaywritersite.com/write-my-paper-for-me to tackle a few of the activities of companies providing these types of services into the UK, by comparing their common practises, and their conditions and terms, using the Act. We found that all of the sites examined have disclaimers in connection with use of their products but there are lots of obvious contradictions in those activities of the sites which undermine these disclaimers, for instance all sites offer plagiarism-free guarantees for the task and also at least eight have advertising which generally seems to contradict their terms and conditions. We identify possible areas in which the Act might be used to follow a legal case but overall conclude that such a method is unlikely to be effective. We call for a offence that is new be created in UK law which specifically targets the undesirable behaviours among these companies in the UK, even though principles might be applied elsewhere. We also highlight other UK approaches that are legal may be much more successful.

Introduction

The utilization of so-called ‘contract cheating’ services by students happens to be a supply of controversy and debate within advanced schooling, particularly when you look at the decade that is last. Leer más