Corporal punishment.

Abstract

Fear of punishment has always been the great weapon of the teacher .... The subject is so familiar that nothing more need be said about it.

Corporal punishment: Normative data and sociological and psychological correlates in a community college population

“…The results of the study support the theory that corporal punishment in child discipline practices correlates with long-lasting behavioral and psychological consequences in the victims (Maurer, 1974;Steinmetz, 1977). The same students who reported having received the highest amounts of corporal punishment perceived that they had lower grades.…”

Female patients who assault in the hospital

“…While injurious punishments from a parent, often said to be associated with severe aggression (Curtis, 1963;Maurer, 1974) was not associated with the assaultive sample, injurious assaults from a sibling did show a significant association. This association may reflect the etiological hypothesis that children who have been assaulted are more apt to assault others, but it could also simply be an early manifestation of a disposition to strike others and provoke counterassault.…”

“…W ith increasing acceptance of the principle of least restrictive treatment, psychiatrists and other hospital treaters now have a greater responsibility to understand aggressive behaviors rather than simply apply chemical or physical restraints. Some studies of aggressive behaviors indicate an association with early environmental factors such as parental brutality (Curtis, 1963;Maurer, 1974) whereas others point to organic cerebral dysfunction (Climent, H y g and Ervin, 1972;Mark and Ervin, 1970). A similar dichotomy is found in the literature on correlates of aggression in females (Climent, Rollins, Ervin and Platchik, 1973;Felthous and Yudowitz, 1977;Mitchell and Murphy, 1975;Brooks and Mitchell, 1975).…”

Child abuse reconsidered the urgency of authentic prevention

“…And force is sanctioned against children, who are least able to defend themselves physically or legally. The case against corporal punishment and the case for the use of non-violent alternatives to disciplining children have been made by innumerable investigators (Feshbach, 1983;Feshbach, Fauvre & Campbell, in press;Hyman & Wise, 1979;Maurer, 1974Maurer, , 1981Williams, 1981). That corporal punishment is unnecessary in the rearing and teaching of children is indicated by its abolition in the schools of Denmark, Finland, Holland, Israel, Japan, Norway, the Soviet Union, and Sweden.…”