Corporal punishment of children in theoretical perspective

Donnelly, Michael, 1949- (Added Author). Straus, Murray A. (Murray Arnold), 1926- (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0300085478 (alk. paper)
Physical Description: print
vii, 338 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Publisher: New Haven, Conn. ; London : Yale University Press, c2005.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-332) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

1. Theoretical approaches to corporal punishment / Murray A. Straus and Michael Donnelly -- 2. Corporal punishment in ecological perspective / James Garbarino -- 3. Parent-offspring conflict and corporal punishment in primates / Lynn Fairbanks and Michael T. McGuire -- 4. Putting corporal punishment of children in historical perspective / Michael Donnelly -- 5. Grid-group theory and corporal punishment / Jean Giles-Sims and Charles Lockhart -- 6. The origins of physical punishment : an ethological/attachment perspective on the use of physical punishment by human parents / Patricia Crittenden -- 7. Behavioral theory and corporal punishment / Scott Powers and Robert Larzelere -- 8. Behavior analysis, evolutionary theory, and the corporal discipline of children / William B. Baum and Anne S. Kupfer -- 9. Spare the rod and spoil the child : lay theories of corporal punishment / Adrian Furnham -- 10. Difficulties of making rational choices concerning corporal punishment of children / Scott Feld -- 11. Unintended consequences of punishment / Joan McCord -- 12. Moral development and corporal punishment / John Martin Rich -- 13. Corporal punishment of children : a communication-theory perspective / Dominic A. Infante --