Abstract
Internationally and within the U.S., school corporal punishment is on the decline both in frequency of use and in its legality, trends which suggest the practice will be abandoned and/or abolished in all countries in the near future. For the 19 states in the U.S. in which school corporal punishment remains legal, how will bans come about? There are three main mechanisms for such a change in educational practice: legal remedies, changes to public policy , and advocacy and educational efforts. The first two will be discussed in this chapter; the third will be considered in Chapter 8.
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Gershoff, E.T., Purtell, K.M., Holas, I. (2015). Legal and Public Policy Strategies to Reduce or Ban School Corporal Punishment. In: Corporal Punishment in U.S. Public Schools. SpringerBriefs in Psychology(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14818-2_7
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