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An important source of resistance to banning corporal punishment from schools is the belief held by some school personnel that a ban will lead to an increase in the incidence of student aggressive and delinquent behavior problems (Dubanoski et al. in Child abuse and neglect 7:271–278, 1983; Hyman in Reading, writing, and the hickory stick: The appalling story of physical and psychological abuse in American schools. Lexington Books, Lexington, MA, 1990).
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Gershoff, E.T., Purtell, K.M., Holas, I. (2015). Policy Analysis: School Corporal Punishment Bans and Juvenile Crime. In: Corporal Punishment in U.S. Public Schools. SpringerBriefs in Psychology(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14818-2_5
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