Global Pathways to Abolishing Physical Punishment (eBook, ePUB)

Realizing Children's Rights
Redaktion: Durrant, Joan E.; Smith, Anne B.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book describes the unfolding of a global phenomenon: the legal prohibition of physical punishment of children. Documenting the stories of countries that have either prohibited corporal punishment of children or who are moving in that direction, this volume will serve as a sourcebook for scholars and advocates around the world who are interested in the many dimensions of physical punishment and its elimination.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 374
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136886348
• Artikelnr.: 42508375

Autorenporträt

Joan E. Durrant is a Child-Clinical Psychologist and Professor of Family Social Sciences at the University of Manitoba in Canada. Her research focuses on the psychological, cultural, legal and human rights dimensions of corporal punishment of children. She was the principal researcher and co-author of the Canadian Joint Statement on Physical Punishment of Children and Youth; a member of the Research Advisory Committee of the United Nations Secretary-General's Study on Violence against Children; and a co-editor of Eliminating Corporal Punishment: The Way Forward to Constructive Discipline (UNESCO). She has been active in public education on the prevention of child maltreatment in Canada and internationally. Anne B. Smith was the director of the Children's Issues Centre (CIC) at the University of Otago in New Zealand for 12 years, and has been a researcher and writer on childhood and child development for many years. Her book, Understanding Children's Development, has been read by practitioners in many child-related fields. Anne also led the CIC team which wrote the influential report The Discipline and Guidance of Children: Messages from Research, and is involved in public education about research on the effects of physical punishment. She is currently working on a variety of research studies, including projects on children as citizens, early childhood education and family discipline at the University of Otago.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro Acknowledgments Part 1: The Rationale for
Eliminating Physical Punishment of Children 1. Introduction to the Global
Movement to Ban Physical Punishment of Children Anne B. Smith and Joan E.
Durrant 2. The Human Rights Imperative to Eliminate Physical Punishment
Peter Newell 3. The Theoretical Rationale for Eliminating Physical
Punishment Anne B. Smith 4. The Empirical Rationale for Eliminating
Physical Punishment Joan E. Durrant Part 2: Stories of Progress towards
Prohibition 5. Africa: Growing Momentum towards the Prohibition of Corporal
Punishment Sonia Vohito 6. Australia: The Ongoing Debate about Ending
Physical Punishment Bernadette Saunders and Judy Cashmore 7. Canada: The
Rocky Road of Repeal Anne McGillivray and Cheryl Milne 8. Costa Rica:
Ending Physical and Humiliating Punishment in Central America Milena Grillo
9. Finland: Children's Right to Protection Sari Husa 10. Germany:
Background and Legal Consequences of the Right to be Raised Without
Violence Kai-D. Bussman 11. Lithuania: Changing a Culture of Violence
towards Children Ieva Kromelyte 12. Mongolia: A Nation in Transition
Olonchimeg Dorjpurev 13. The Netherlands: The Law Against Using Violence in
Bringing Up Children Mirjam Elisabeth Blaak 14. New Zealand: The
Achievements and Challenges of Prohibition Nicola Taylor, Beth Wood and
Anne B. Smith 15. Norway: The Long and Winding Road towards Prohibiting
Physical Punishment Kirsten Sandberg 16. Romania: Banning Corporal
Punishment of Children Gabriela Alexandrescu 17. Serbia: Moving towards the
Abolition of Physical Punishment of Children Jelena Srna and Ivana
Stevanovic 18. Spain: Banning Physical and Humiliating Punishment in the
Home Pepa Horno Goicoechea 19. Sweden: A 30-Year Ban on Physical Punishment
of Children Staffan Janson, Bodil Långberg and Birgitta Svensson 20. The
United Kingdom: The Ongoing Struggle to Achieve Legal Reform Sharon Owen
21. Uruguay: The Landmark Law in Latin America Maria Clara Galvis and Gaby
Reyes Godoy 22. Venezuela: The Process of Prohibiting Physical and
Humiliating Punishment Maria Clara Galvis and Gaby Reyes Godoy 23. Yemen:
Prohibiting Physical and Humiliating Punishment in Schools Aisha Saeed and
Lucienne Maas Part 3: Lessons Learned and Pathways to the Future 24.
Effects of Banning Corporal Punishment in Europe: A Five-Nation Comparison
Kai-D. Bussmann, Claudia Erthal and Andreas Schroth 25. Witnessing History
and Charting the Future: Pathways to Prohibition Anne B. Smith and Joan E.
Durrant