Corporal punishment of children / Bernadette J. Saunders.

• Superior document: Stockholm studies in child law and children's rights ; Volume 4
• VerfasserIn: Saunders, Bernadette J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Brill,, 2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Stockholm Studies in Child Law and Children’s Rights 4.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (344 pages).

Corporal Punishment of Children - Comparative Legal and Social Developments towards Prohibition and Beyond provides insights into the views and experiences of prominent academics, and political, religious, and human rights activists from Australia, Canada, Germany, Ireland, Israel, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa, Sweden, the UK, and the US. Country-specific and thematic insights in relation to children’s ongoing experience of corporal punishment are detailed and discussed, and key questions are raised and considered with a view to advancing progress towards societies in which children’s human rights to dignity and optimal development are more fully recognised.

Table of Contents

Introduction: ‘To Prohibition of Corporal Punishment - And Beyond!’ Issues and Insights from an Inaugural Workshop in Stockholm on the Corporal Punishment of Children / Bernadette J. Saunders , Pernilla Leviner and Bronwyn Naylor -- Background -- From Banning Corporal Punishment to the Elimination of Violence against Children - A Global Perspective / Tríona Lenihan -- The Role of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child in Eliminating Corporal Punishment in the Home / Kirsten Sandberg -- Culture, Law and Religion -- Problematising “Childism” and Related Language in the English-Speaking World: the Power of Words to Either Thwart or Progress the Attainment of Children’s Human Rights to Freedom from Corporal Punishment and Other Degrading Treatment / Bernadette J. Saunders -- Comparative Legal Approaches to Corporal Punishment: Regulating for Behavioural Change / Bronwyn Naylor -- Towards Universal Prohibition of Corporal Punishment of Children - Religious Progress, Challenges and Opportunities / Chris Dodd -- Countries with a Ban -- The Swedish Ban on Corporal Punishment of Children in a Multi-Cultural Context - Conflicting Logics in the Social Services / Pernilla Leviner and Tiziana Sardiello -- New Zealand’s Landmark Law Change to Prohibit Corporal Punishment of Children / Ian Hassall -- The Years after the Ban: Dealing with Cases of Corporal Punishment by Parents in the German Criminal Justice System / Monika Haug -- The Ban on Parental Corporal Punishment in Israel - What Facilitated the Change? / Tamar Morag -- Southern African Perspectives on Banning Corporal Punishment - a Comparison of Namibia, Botswana, South Africa and Zimbabwe / Julia Sloth-Nielsen -- Countries without a Ban -- Slow and Not-So-Steady: Canada’s Long Journey toward Protecting Children from Corporal Punishment / Joan E. Durrant -- History of and Progress in the Movement to End Corporal Punishment in the United States / George W. Holden , Kaci L. Wright and Deborah D. Sendek -- Afterword -- The Development of Social and Legal Aspects of Corporal Punishment - a Swedish Paediatrician’s Commentary / Staffan Janson.