Corporal Punishment in U.S. Public Schools: Prevalence, Disparities in Use, and Status in State and Federal Policy. Social Policy Report. Volume 30, Number 1

Autor/inn/en	Gershoff, Elizabeth T.; Font, Sarah A.
Institution	Society for Research in Child Development
Titel	Corporal Punishment in U.S. Public Schools: Prevalence, Disparities in Use, and Status in State and Federal Policy. Social Policy Report. Volume 30, Number 1
Quelle	(2016), (26 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
ISSN	1075-7031
Schlagwörter	Punishment; Public Schools; Incidence; State Policy; Discipline Policy; Bias; African Americans; Males; Disabilities; Racial Differences; Gender Differences; Court Litigation; Injuries; Child Abuse; National Organizations; Civil Rights Legislation; Childrens Rights; State Legislation; Federal Legislation; Educational Trends; Educational Change; United States + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bestrafung; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Vorkommen; Disziplinarmaßnahme; Afroamerikaner; Male; Männliches Geschlecht; Handicap; Behinderung; Rassenunterschied; Geschlechterkonflikt; Rechtsstreit; Abuse of children; Abuse; Child; Children; Kindesmissbrauch; Missbrauch; Kind; Kinder; Private law; Bürgerliches Recht; 'Children''s rights'; Kindesrecht; Landesrecht; Bundesrecht; Bildungsentwicklung; Bildungsreform; USA
Abstract	School corporal punishment is currently legal in 19 states, and over 160,000 children in these states are subject to corporal punishment in schools each year. Given that the use of school corporal punishment is heavily concentrated in Southern states, and that the federal government has not included corporal punishment in its recent initiatives about improving school discipline, public knowledge of this issue is limited. The aim of this policy report is to fill the gap in knowledge about school corporal punishment by describing the prevalence and geographic dispersion of corporal punishment in U.S. public schools and by assessing the extent to which schools disproportionately apply corporal punishment to children who are Black, to boys, and to children with disabilities. This policy report is the first-ever effort to describe the prevalence of and disparities in the use of school corporal punishment at the school and school-district levels. We end the report by summarizing sources of concern about school corporal punishment, reviewing state policies related to school corporal punishment, and discussing the future of school corporal punishment in state and federal policy. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01