American criminal justice is a dysfunctional mess. Cops are too violent, the punishments are
too punitive, and the so-called Land of the Free imprisons more people than any other …

The aim of this book is to assess the moral permissibility of corporal punishment and to
enquire into whether or not it ought to be legally prohibited. Against the widespread view …

Incarceration is a sensible penalty in the minority of cases where criminals are so dangerous
that we may justly remove them from society in order to protect ourselves. Incarceration is a …

Born near Abbeville, South Carolina, Calhoun's (1782–1850) educational opportunities
were limited, albeit advanced by the occasional tutelage offered by his brother-in-law …

Redress Scotland is an executive non-departmental public body, set up in 2021. Redress
Scotland is one of two organisations responsible for Scotland's Redress Scheme–the other …

PUNISHMENTS have an air of paradox to them. In a typical case, we punish a criminal
because they have inflicted a serious harm onto another, for example by committing robbery …

The current study explored the link of parental punishment with academic achievement of
secondary school students. The sample size of 400 students (200 male and 200 female) …

From a broader perspective, children's rights are reasonably well defined outside of the
specific focus on torture. The Convention on the Rights of the Child specifically addresses …

Despite numerous studies on parental punishment, there is a deficiency of knowledge on
how parental punishment can affect the students' behaviour in schools. The present study …

This piece focuses on two questions about corporal punishment of children. First, is corporal
punishment effective? In other words, does it achieve its proponents' stated aims? Second …