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Download full textGershoff, Elizabeth T.; Font, Sarah A. – Society for Research in Child Development, 2016
School corporal punishment is currently legal in 19 states, and over 160,000 children in these states are subject to corporal punishment in schools each year. Given that the use of school corporal punishment is heavily concentrated in Southern states, and that the federal government has not included corporal punishment in its recent initiatives…
Descriptors: Punishment, Public Schools, Incidence, State Policy
