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Corporal Punishment

Methods, Reviews, & Critiques

• 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.
  

  CP6 - Straus, Murray A. 1994. "Should the use of coporal punishment by parents be considered child abuse?" Pp. 196-222 in Debating children's lives: Current controversies on children and adolescents, M. A. Mason and E. Gambrill. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications.

  CP11 - Straus, Murray A. 2001. "Ten myths that perpetuate corporal punishment." Pp. 149-164 in Beating the Devil Out of Them: Corporal Punishment in American Families and Its Effects on Children, 2nd Edition, M. A. Straus. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers.

  CP31 -Straus, Murray A. 1996. "Spanking and the making of a violent society." Pediatrics. The short- and long-term consequences of corporal punishment (supplement) 98:837- 842. Also as "Implications for Crime and Violence in Society" Chapter 19 in Straus, Murray A., Emily M. Douglas and Rose Anne Medeiros. In Press. The Primordial Violence: Spanking children and its effects on cognitive development and crime. New York: Psychology Press.

  CP41 - Straus, Murray A. 2001. "The benefits of never spanking: New and more definitive evidence." Pp. Chapter 12 in Murray A. Straus, 2nd Edition. Beating the devil out of them: Corporal punishment in American Families And Its Effects on Children, M. A. Straus. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publications.

  CP49 - Straus, Murray A. 1998. "Spanking by parents -- some ideas on measurement and analysis of a neglected risk factor for serious mental health problems." Behavioral measurements letter 5:3-8. Also as "Appendix B in Straus, Murray A., Emily M. Douglas and Rose Anne Medeiros. In Press. The Primordial Violence: Spanking children and its effects on cognitive development and crime. New York: Psychology Press.

CP61 - Straus, Murray A. 2008. "Commentary: The Special Issue on prevention of Violence Ignores the Primordial Violence." Journal of Interpersonal Violence 23:1314-1320.

CP62 - Straus, Murray A. 2000. "Corporal punishment by parents: The cradle of violence in the family and society." Virginia Journal of Social Policy and the Law 8:7-60.

CP64 - Straus, Murray A. In Press. "Demystifying the defenses of corporal punishment." in The Primordial Violence: Spanking children and its effects on cognitive development and crime. Appendix A, edited by M. A. Straus, E. M. Douglas, and R. A. Medeiros. New York: Psychology Press.

CP65 - Straus, Murray A. 2000. "Corporal punishment and primary prevention of physical abuse." Child Abuse & Neglect 24:1109-1114.

CP67 - Straus, Murray A. 2005. "Children should never, ever, be spanked no matter what the circumstances." Pp. 137-157 in Current Controversies about Family Violence, D. R. Loseke, R. J. Gelles, and M. M. Cavanaugh. Thousand Oak, CA: Sage.

CP85 - Douglas, Emily M. and Murray A Straus. 2007. "Discipline by parents and child psychopathology." Chapter 18 in International handbook of psychopathology and the law, A. R. Felthous and H. Sass. New York: Wiley.