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Corporal Punishment of Children: A Human Rights Violation
Susan Bitensky
出版
BRILL
, 2006-06-14
主題
Law / International
Political Science / Human Rights
Family & Relationships / Life Stages / Infants & Toddlers
Family & Relationships / Life Stages / School Age
Social Science / Children's Studies
ISBN
9047431162
9789047431169
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=l2awCQAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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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 inasmuch 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.
Published under the Transnational Publishers imprint.