Corporal Punishment of Children : Comparative Legal and Social Developments Towards Prohibition and Beyond.

Intro -- Comparative Legal and Social Developments towards Prohibition and Beyond -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: 'To Prohibition of Corporal Punishment - And Beyond!' Issues and Insights from an Inaugural Workshop in Stockholm on the Corporal Punishment of Children -- Part 1 Background -- 1 From Banning Corporal Punishment to the Elimination of Violence against Children - A Global Perspective -- 2 The Role of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child in Eliminating Corporal Punishment in the Home -- Part 2 Culture, Law and Religion -- 3 Problematising "Childism" and Related Language in the English- Speaking World: the Power of Words to Either Thwart or Progress the Attainment of Children's Human Rights to Freedom from Corporal Punishment and Other Degrading Treatment -- 4 Comparative Legal Approaches to Corporal Punishment: Regulating for Behavioural Change -- 5 Towards Universal Prohibition of Corporal Punishment of Children - Religious Progress, Challenges and Opportunities -- Part 3 Countries with a Ban -- 6 The Swedish Ban on Corporal Punishment of Children in a Multi- Cultural Context - Conflicting Logics in the Social Services -- 7 New Zealand's Landmark Law Change to Prohibit Corporal Punishment of Children -- 8 The Years after the Ban: Dealing with Cases of Corporal Punishment by Parents in the German Criminal Justice System -- 9 The Ban on Parental Corporal Punishment in Israel - What Facilitated the Change? -- 10 Southern African Perspectives on Banning Corporal Punishment - a Comparison of Namibia, Botswana, South Africa and Zimbabwe -- Part 4 Countries without a Ban -- 11 Slow and Not- So- Steady: Canada's Long Journey toward Protecting Children from Corporal Punishment -- 12 History of and Progress in the Movement to End Corporal Punishment in the United States -- Afterword.

13 The Development of Social and Legal Aspects of Corporal Punishment - a Swedish Paediatrician's Commentary -- Index.

Corporal Punishment of Children - Comparative Legal and Social Developments towards Prohibition and Beyond, provides country-specific insights and thematic understandings in relation to children's ongoing experience of corporal punishment, and aims to advance recognition of children's human rights to dignity and to optimal development.

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