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Education and Advocacy Efforts to Reduce School Corporal Punishment

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Corporal Punishment in U.S. Public Schools

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Any law that bans corporal punishment would need to be accompanied by efforts to inform the public about the law and to educate them about positive discipline and other non-violent methods of correcting children’s misbehavior (Global Initiative in Prohibiting corporal punishment of children: a guide to legal reform and other measures, 2009).

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    Elizabeth T. Gershoff & Igor Holas

  2. Department of Human Sciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

    Kelly M. Purtell

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Gershoff, E.T., Purtell, K.M., Holas, I. (2015). Education and Advocacy Efforts to Reduce 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_8

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