Discusses the positive effects of grading without the use of F grades, a method of punishment lacking redeeming value. (RK)

Presents five principles which yield predictions about deterrence of illegal acts by the use of negative sanctions in the form of testable hypotheses, including intensity, temporal proximity, availability of reward, schedule of delivery, and availability of alternative behaviors. Suggests application of any principle of punishment is premature…

This article presents a practical approach to resolving difficulties experienced by classroom teachers. Areas discussed include student rights, techniques for correcting behavior, the value of conferences, the establishment of standards for behavior, and punishment. (CT)

This article explores three issues (parental involvement in the schools, teacher evaluation, and corporal punishment) through a comparison of the 1840 Concord, Massachusetts school system with the present-day system. (CT)

Although status offenders (young people defined as incorrigible, runaways, or truants) have often been abused previously, their placement in hospital psychiatric wards constitutes further abuse. Insecure, insufficiently trained hospital staffers are one of the major problems that perpetuates the cycle of provocation and punishment in…

Reevaluation of published research on racial bias in criminal sentencing, and data on execution rates (1930-67) and death sentencing rates (1967-78), contradict a hypothesis of overt discrimination against Black defendants. One possible explanation of relatively lenient sentencing of Black defendants is the devalued status of Black crime victims.…

Data from Florida from 1976-77 show that those accused of murdering Whites are more likely to be sentenced to death than those accused of murdering Blacks. If victim's race is controlled, however, data do not clearly support the hypothesis that defendant's race is strongly associated with imposition of the death penalty. (Author/GC)

A retributive perspective, in which punishment must be the response to a misdeed regardless of the misdeed's consequences, provides a more substantive approach to the disruptive student than does the presently accepted rehabilitation-utilitarian perspective, which only advocates the punishment of misdeeds that do not promote institutional goals.…

Kenneth Clark asserts that corporal punishment is an anachronism and that it is applied arbitrarily and sometimes sadistically, teaching children to use violence to solve problems. Charles Miller replies that both common law and common sense support the use of corporal punishment, when all other disciplinary approaches have failed. (SJL)

The events and statements surrounding the execution of Gary Gilmore are depicted as rhetorically appealing because they embody the symbolic form of power vs powerlessness. Gilmore defeated symbols of the powerful by strategically co-opting two bases of power, physical force and moral force. Warns of the dangers of rhetorical drama. (JMF)

Explores the larger social context within which school discipline problems occur and describes the loss of controls in the school. Discusses disciplinary measures, including punishment, and a positive approach to school discipline for students who cannot behave as expected in a normal classroom setting. (RH)

The study was designed to examine and clarify systematically the reinforcement parameters that underlie 96 adolescent male delinquents' responses to verbal and token reward and/or punishment. (Author)

Suggestions are made for clarifying school discipline policy through collective bargaining between administration and teacher associations. (JD)

The author reviews some of the arguments for the retention or abolition of corporal punishment in the schools in light of his own experiences as a teacher. (SJL)