In Their Own Words

The core of this book is a legal analysis of human-rights treaties yielding the conclusion that all corporal punishment of children is a human-rights violation. The book also explores the policy reasons justifying this legal status for such discipline, highlights the uniquely pedagogical and therapeutic role played by legal bans on the practice, and compares the domestic laws of the fifteen countries that have, to date, outlawed all corporal punishment of children with exemplars of the laws in countries that still permit the punishment to continue under certain conditions.