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Corporal Punishment - Empirical Studies

• Dimension's of Discipline Inventory: The DDI measures: (A) Misbehavior by the child. (B) Use of nine discipline techniques such as explanation, corporal punishment, and reward. (C)Ten aspects of the mode of implementing discipline (such as impulsivity) and the context (such as agreement-disagreement between parents on discipline). (D) Degree of approval or disapproval of each of the nine discipline techniques.
  Despite the broad coverage, the DDI is brief - 10 to 20 minutes, average time 15 minutes.

• CPB1R - BEATING THE DEVIL OUT OF THEM: CORPORAL PUNISHMENT IN AMERICAN FAMILIES AND ITS EFFECTS ON CHILDREN, 2nd Edition, (Table of contents and order form)
  
• CP3 - CORPORAL PUNISHMENT OF CHILDREN AND ADULT DEPRESSION AND SUICIDAL IDEATION

• CP7 - CORPORAL PUNISHMENT BY PARENTS AND ECONOMIC ACHIEVEMENT: A THEORETICAL MODEL AND SOME PRELIMINARY EMPIRICAL DATA

• CP10 - CORPORAL PUNISHMENT OF CHILDREN AND CRIME IN ETHNIC GROUP CONTEXT

• CP13 - CORPORAL PUNISHMENT: LINKS TO PHYSICAL ABUSE

• CP16 - CHILD, MATERNAL, AND FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS ASSOCIATED WITH SPANKING

• CP20 - THERE WAS AN OLD WOMAN WHO LIVED IN A SHOE: NUMBER OF CHILDREN AND CORPORAL PUNISHMENT

• CP23 - CORPORAL PUNISHMENT IN ADOLESCENCE AND PHYSICAL ASSAULT ON SPOUSES IN LATER LIFE: WHAT ACCOUNTS FOR THE LINK?

• CP24 - SPANKING BY PARENTS AND SUBSEQUENT ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR OF CHILDREN

• CP27 - SOCIAL CHANGE AND TREND IN APPROVAL OF CORPORAL PUNISHMENT BY PARENTS FROM 1968 TO 1994

• CP28 - THE FUSION OF SEX AND VIOLENCE

• CP29 - CORPORAL PUNISHMENT OF ADOLESCENTS AND ACADEMIC ATTAINMENT

• CP33/ID33 - CORPORAL PUNISHMENT OF UNIVERISTY STUDENTS IN 17 COUNTRIES AND ITS RELATION TO ASSAULT AND INJURY OF DATING PARTNERS

• CP36 - CORPORAL PUNISHMENT BY AMERICAN PARENTS: NATIONAL DATA ON PREVALENCE, CHRONICITY, SEVERITY, AND DURATION, IN RELATION  TO CHILD AND FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS
  
  
• CP44/ID44 - VIOLENCE SOCIALIZATION IN THE FAMILY AND ITS IMPACT ON ATTUDES ABOUT CORPORAL PUNISHMENT: AN INTERNATINAL PERSPECTIVE

• CP51 - COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT

• CP70 - CORPORAL PUNISHMENT AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT SCORES OF YOUNG CHILDREN: A LONGITUDINAL STUDY

• CP71 - VIOLENCE BY CHILDREN AGAINST MOTHERS IN RELATION TO VIOLENCE BETWEEN PARENTS AND CORPORAL  PUNISHMENT BY PARENTS
  
  
• CP79 - Straus, Murray A. (2008, February 28). "Corporal punishment of children and sexual behavior problems: results from four studies." Paper presented at the American Psychological Association Summit Conference on Violence and Abuse in Interpersonal Relationship, Bethesda, Maryland.
  
  
• CP89/ID89/PR89 - Straus, Murray A. (2008, March 18th & 19th). "Two ignored risk factors for partner violence: Neglect and corporal punishment in childhood." Paper presented at the Inaugural Conference of the International Family Aggression Society, Preston, UK: University of Central Lancashire.
  
  
• CP91/ID91/PR91 - Gamez-Guadix, Manuel and Murray A. Straus. 2008. "Childhood and adolescent victimization and sexual coercion and assault by male and female university students." Durham, NH: Family Research Laboratory, University of New Hampshire.