In response to James Mulick (EC 232 032), this paper states that a resolution of the Association for Persons with Severe Handicaps calling for termination of the use of aversive procedures is appropriately ideologically based as long as continued behavioral research into positive means of controlling behavior is not discouraged. (DB)

The study with two elementary students who had low levels of completion and accuracy on daily arithmetic assignments found that a negative consequence was not necessary and that use of a positive component alone was sufficient to maintain high levels of completion and accuracy. (Author/DB)

According to National Crime Survey estimate, almost three million students, faculty, staff, and visitors were crime victims while in school or on school property during 1987. Thefts accounted for 2.5 million acts, declining from 3.2 million in 1982. Despite a declining school-age population, violent crimes have increased. A 1989 study is planned…

A water mist was employed as a punisher to reduce head hitting in a 10-year-old multiply handicapped, visually impaired child. Results indicated that water mist alone was effective in reducing the frequency of head hits during meals, but other situations required the addition of primary reinforcers, stimulus control, or both. (Author/JDD)

Reports results of a postcard survey of attitudes of South Dakota elementary school principals toward corporal punishment. Reveals a slight majority of respondents favor legal use of corporal punishment, with half indicating the principal should administer it and half reporting their local community supports corporal punishment. (DHP)

Using a standardized questionnaire, descriptions of disciplinary childhood experiences were obtained from 11,660 university undergraduates over a 10-year period. No systematic changes in reports of physical discipline were found. Few young adults who reported severely punitive or injurious disciplinary events categorized those experiences as…

A boy with severe mental retardation was unresponsive to his environment and spent 80% of his day body-rocking. Stereotyped body-rocking was greatly reduced via differential reinforcement of incompatible responding (DRI), physical restraint, and reprimand. (JDD)

Discusses the rise of juvenile crime in the United States, explores the failure of the juvenile justice system to stem the tide of youth crime, and examines the issue of prevention. The author argues the need to always hold youth offenders accountable for the crimes they commit and suggests several means by which restitution may be made. (GR)

There is no justification for using corporal punishment in schools. Educators are responsible for turning a child's misbehavior into an opportunity to teach character and self-control. When self-disciplined adults create a problem, they apologize, accept the consequences, make restitution, and learn from their mistakes. Children must be taught to…

Responding to Paul Chance's November 1992 "Kappan" article on motivational value of rewards, this article argues that manipulating student behavior with either punishments or rewards is unnecessary and counterproductive. Extrinsic rewards can never buy more than short-term compliance because they are inherently controlling and…

Details Lawrence Oxley's work as director of the Division of Work among Blacks from 1925 to 1934. Discusses racial attitudes and legal injustices toward Blacks. Oxley addressed social problems of Blacks such as unfair capital punishment, juvenile delinquency, and lack of social services. (KS)

Discusses criteria for identification of six types of physical maltreatment of children. The typology represents a broad framework which is used to differentiate between milder and more severe forms of physical child abuse. (NH)

A total of 23 preschool and 23 fifth-grade children and their mothers judged the acceptability of corporal punishment as a function of the type of transgression and discipline agent. Preschoolers showed broad acceptability for severe corporal punishment for any type of transgression and by any agent, whereas fifth graders were generally…

Comparison of eight individuals with mental retardation and severe, life-threatening, self-injurious behavior who received electrical aversive treatment with eight similar individuals who did not receive this treatment found that, over a 3-year period, electrical aversion treatment significantly reduced the degree of imposed mechanical restraints.…

Examines the cessation of corporal punishment by parents who start out spanking their children and then make a concerted effort to stop. Draws on semi-structured interviews with 22 parents and identifies five contexts in which those efforts arose: experiential, ideological, regulatory, relational, and biographical. Data suggests cultural…