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

Corporal Punishment of Children: Comparative Legal and Social Developments towards Prohibition and Beyond , provides country-specific insights and thematic understandings in relation to childrens ongoing experience of corporal punishment, and aims to advance recognition of childrens human rights to dignity and to optimal development. 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 • Bernadette J. Saunders, Pernilla Leviner and Bronwyn Naylor Part 1: Background 1 From Banning Corporal Punishment to the Elimination of Violence against Children – A Global Perspective • Tríona Lenihan 2 The Role of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child in Eliminating Corporal Punishment in the Home • Kirsten Sandberg Part 2: Culture, Law and Religion 3 Problematising “Childism” and Related Language in the English- Speaking World: the Power of Words to Either Thwartor Progress the Attainment of Children’s Human Rights to Freedom from Corporal Punishment and Other Degrading Treatment • Bernadette J. Saunders 4 Comparative Legal Approaches to Corporal Punishment: Regulating for Behavioural Change • Bronwyn Naylor 5 Towards Universal Prohibition of Corporal Punishment of Children – Religious Progress, Challenges and Opportunities • Chris Dodd 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 • Pernilla Leviner and Tiziana Sardiello 7 New Zealand’s Landmark Law Change to Prohibit Corporal Punishment of Children • Ian Hassall 8 The Years after the Ban: Dealing with Cases of Corporal Punishment by Parents in the German Criminal Justice System • Monika Haug 9 The Ban on Parental Corporal Punishment in Israel – What Facilitated the Change? • Tamar Morag 10 Southern African Perspectives on Banning Corporal Punishment – a Comparison of Namibia, Botswana, South Africaand Zimbabwe • Julia Sloth- Nielsen Part 4: Countries without a Ban 11 Slow and Not- So- Steady: Canada’s Long Journey toward Protecting Children from Corporal Punishment • Joan E. Durrant 12 History of and Progress in the Movement to End Corporal Punishment in the United States • George W. Holden, Kaci L. Wright and Deborah D. Sendek Afterword 13 The Development of Social and Legal Aspects of Corporal Punishment –a Swedish Paediatrician’s Commentary 323Staffan Janson Index Corporal Punishment of Children - Comparative Legal and Social Developments towards Prohibition and Beyond provides insights into the views and experiences of prominent academics, and political, religious, and human rights activists from Australia, Canada, Germany, Ireland, Israel, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa, Sweden, the UK, and the US. Country-specific and thematic insights in relation to children's ongoing experience of corporal punishment are detailed and discussed, and key questions are raised and considered with a view to advancing progress towards societies in which children's human rights to dignity and optimal development are more fully recognised. __Corporal Punishment of Children: Comparative Legal and Social Developments towards Prohibition and Beyond__