The core of this book is a detailed analysis of the status of corporal punishment of children, including Areasonable spankings by parents, under international human rights law. The analysis leads compellingly to the conclusion that such punishment is indeed a human rights violation, consonant with modern norms about right and decent treatment of juveniles. The book further provides a comparative analysis between the domestic laws of the seventeen nations that ban all corporal punishment of children (Sweden, Finland, Norway, Austria, Cyprus, Denmark, Germany, Iceland, Bulgaria, Croatia, Latvia, Hungary, Romania, Ukraine, Israel, Italy, and Portugal) and examples of the domestic laws in the countries that still permit some physical chastisement of children (United States and Canada). Because it is anticipated that a good number of readers will be surprised to learn that this disciplinary practice has become a human rights law violation, the book also engages in an in-depth exegesis of the psychological evidence and historical and philosophical reasons warranting prohibition of all corporal punishment of children as an imperative policy choice. The work probes as well why, once that choice is made, it is essential to use legal bans on the punishment in as much as they have uniquely effective pedagogical and therapeutic roles and give some permanence to humanity's hard won understanding about protecting the young from violence. It is published under the Transnational Publishers imprint.
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Susan Bitensky is Professor of Law at Michigan State University College of Law.
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This review is from: Corporal Punishment of Children: A Human Rights Violation (Hardcover)
This book offers a comprehensive review of the longstanding practice of "training" children through physical assault on their bodies. It is a dangerous practice and the United States is lagging way behind the international community in putting an end to this barbaric and obsolete practice. Kids are people too, and, perhaps worse, they grow up to be adults who will likely treat others the way they were treated as kids. If we ever expect to create a less violent society, we need to start with the smallest citizens and treat them with respect and kindness so that they will become the kind of adults that are necessary to create peace in the home and abroad.
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