Corporal Punishment Essay

Corporal Punishment As A Valid Means For Disciplining Children Demetria Belcher Northeast Lakeview College Corporal Punishment As A Valid Means For Disciplining Children INTRODUCTION "Is corporal punishment a valid tool for disciplining children?" This question has been debated for decades worldwide, but not so much in the United States as in recent years. High profile cases in the media, such as the indictment of Vikings running back Adrian Peterson in 2014, for spanking his son…

For generations, corporal punishment has been permitted for use in households across the United States with many believing it to be an effective way to enforce discipline in children. Corporal punishment is often defined as the use of physical force against a child, often by means of spanking, or striking the child with various objects, causing pain as a means to control and correct disobedience. Corporal punishment is said to be effective in gaining the attention of a child so that they will…

Summary of the Article The article shows the top ten reported states that use paddling as a punishment in public schools, with Mississippi as the front-runner for the most reported paddlings. But, this is only the reported paddling, there is no telling of how much happens that is not reported to school officials. The Southern States are the most popular for corporal punishment in schools because of how religious these states and the people in them tend to be. “The Bible Belt states, where…

Out of love, parents sometime resort to physical punishment. Most parents belief that it is the one thing needful so as to convict the children’s bad behavior. It has been defined as “the use of physical force with the intention of causing a child to experience bodily pain or discomfort so as to correct or punish the child’s behavior” (Holinger,2015). This includes: spanking, hitting, pinching, squeezing, paddling, whipping, smacking, slapping, washing a child’s mouth with soap, making a child…

in America’s prison systems, Arafa and Burns the authors of Judicial Corporal Punishment in the United States? Lessons from Islamic Criminal Law for Curing the Ills of Mass Incarceration, argued in favour of reinstating Judicial Corporal Punishment in the prison systems of America; similar to the ones that Islamic criminal law advocates for. Throughout the article, the authors’ work to prove how Judicial Corporal Punishment is more compassionate to both the offenders and their families; it…

experts began to examine the effects physical discipline had on children’s social, emotional and behavioral well-being, especially in regards to the long-term side effects. Even in today’s society, there exist various opinions in regards to corporal punishment. However, the American Academy of Pediatrics encourages care-givers to rely on other approaches when correcting their children’s behavior to ensure the decreased likelihood of the “ten negative outcomes.” (Terri-combs-Orme…

physically at home from a young age. Many people are against physical punishment because they don’t believe it works, or it does more harm than good whereas others see the situation differently, depending on past experiences. Although it does work in order to make kids behave, the control that is gained is limited, it changes the way the way the child socializes, and it has horrid effects on the development of the kid. When corporal punishment is delivered, it is an attempt to show the child…

disallowing cruel and unusual punishment. So far, eighteen out of the fifty states have made executions illegal, while three others have halted it under their current governors. Corporal punishments should be made illegal in the remaining thirty-two states. The reasons for this include the execution of potentially innocent victims, the racism involved in deciding who is guilty, and the unreliable consistency of the use of corporal punishment. The use of corporal punishment has never been fair or…

This article is an examination into the differences between judicial corporal punishment as implemented by Islamic countries, and incarceration in the United States. Incarceration, particularly in the United States, is widely known to be a massive taxpayer burden— to the tune of over $52 billion per year. In 2012, the annual cost per inmate in the United States was approximately $21,000 for low-risk inmates, and up to $34,000 for high-risk offenders. Additionally, incarceration places a…

Jacoby, in his essay “Bring Back Flogging”, argues an unpopular, but potentially problem-solving, point of view; he asserts that corporal punishment should be re-adopted by the United States. To accomplish this, he specifically targets popular counterarguments to showcase his powerful logical backing. In addition, his inclusion of specific historical cases of corporal…