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Corporal Punishment 1

Running head: Effects of Corporal Punishment on Children

Exercise 1

Corporal Punishment on Children

Erika D. Stewart

SOWK 300

Tuskegee University

September 26, 2011


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Article 1 Harriet L. MacMillan,* MD; Mi. (1999). Slapping and spanking in

childhood.Slapping and spanking in childhood. Retrieved from jstor

In this article, background information, methods, interpretation, and results were given.

The background discusses the prevalence of and outcomes associated with a history of

slapping and spanking in childhood. This article is touching bases with all the things thathappen each and everyday. The methods discussed the measures included a self-

administered questionnaire with a question about frequency of

slapping and spanking during childhood, as well as an interviewer-administeredquestionnaire to measure psychiatric disorder. The results were based on the majority of

respondents indicated that they had been slapped or spanked, or both, by an adult during

childhood sometimes (33.4%) or rarely(40.9%); 5.5% reported that this occurred

often. The remainder (20.2%) reported never experiencing these behaviors andsituations.

Article 2 Salt, H. S. (1905). The Ethics of Corporal Punishment.International Journal ofEthics, 16(1), 77-88. Retrieved from http://tulibrarydb.tuskegee.edu

In this article was mainly talking about different definitions of corporal

punishment and there meanings. The author spoke about several different definitions of

corporal punishment and how they relate to each other. One of the definitions that wereaddress in this article was the use of physical force with the intention of causing a child

to experience pain but not injury for the purposes of correction or control of the childs

behavior. meaning that inflicting pain on a child doesnt really help them. Most parents

and will probably agree that there is a very big difference between tapping a child on thehand or buttocks than using a belt, slapping, punching, or using any other object or

extreme force when you discipline a children which a lot of people feel like they can

discipline their children how they feel, and their way of discipline them is the right way.

Article 3 Ellison, C. G., & Sherkat, D. E. (1993). Conservative Protestantism and

support for corporal punishment.American Sociological Review, 58(1), 131-144.

Retrieved from http://tulibrarydb.tuskegee.edu:

The American society explains what corporal punishment is positively that is related

to the frequency and intensity of acting out and behavior disorders. Researchers have foundthat children who are spanked tend to have mental problems and are at a greater risk for

depression as well as a host of other running psychological adjustment problems. Spankingalso leads to an abusive person. When a child grows up in a home where spanking is okay

then they feel as though hitting is normal which makes them become abusive. This does notmean every child spanked will have some type of problem but it does affect a large number

of them.

Article 4 Straus, M. (1996). Spanking and the Making of a Violent Society.

PEDIATRICS, 98(4), 837-842. Retrieved from

http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/abstract/98/4/837
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In this article it informs individuals what is going on and how it can be compared

to other situations. It persuades one that spanking can result and can increase in a highercrime rate in society. In this article it show statistics, and statistics shows that of the murder

rate per 100,000 people from other countries as well as the United States has to do with

children who were spanked. They believe that this could, promote more domestic abuse, asthe children get older and more fighting in schools, because that is the way they feel people

are suppose to get punished. This article is useful because it shows how aggressive Americanculture is as well how the concept of spanking and be misinterpreted and taken into a

different context.

Article 5 Benjet, C., & Kazdin, A. E.: Spanking Children the Controversies,

findings, and new directions Retrieved from tuskegee.edu

The purpose of this article spanking children and the controversies findings is to explain

the difference between spanking and child abuse, child neglect ,and the effect it has on a

childs life. The goal of this article is to stimulate research questions that will allow aprocess of a resolution. Spanking in this article is hitting a child with their open hand, on

the buttocks, face, arms and other human body parts. The public attitude of spanking

suggests growing in such a high level that everything in the new generation is changingrapidly.


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