In discussing school discipline, the place to begin is by considering whether detention, suspension, and expulsion help students and resolve discipline problems. Detention seems to be most effective when the student is detained on the same day and as close as possible to the time the offense occurs, but too often detention is used merely as a…

Parents of young children feel a keen obligation to maintain adequate control over their child's behavior. In this paper, factors are examined that in all probability affect the adult's success in maintaining sensible control and changing child behavior when it seems necessary to do so. Five such factors are: (1) the child's desire to please his…

The purpose of this study was two-fold: (1) to determine whether alcoholics will show greater persistance in responding under punishment in a simple operant task as compared to nonalcoholics; and (2) with this task, under what conditions alcoholics will suppress their responses to the same extent as nonalcoholics. In the task, all subjects during…

An experiment was conducted to investigate the effects of time perspective on performance expectancies and the subjective evaluation of outcomes in regard to a task at which subjects had previously succeeded or failed. Subjects first succeeded or failed on either an easy or difficult task. They then stated performance expectancies and made…

This report has been prepared to increase the general awareness of how serious a problem corporal punishment can be and also to contribute some possible corrective steps. The document consists of (1) a summary of the current situation, (2) specific civil liberties considerations, (3) harmful effects, (4) illustrative case reports, (5) recent court…

Based on a theory of self-awareness, it was hypothesized that subjects would use their attitudes to determine their behaviors when (a) that attitude was salient and (b) their attention was directed toward themselves. (Editor)

Excerpts from the Minnesota Bar Association's Blue Ribbon Committee report of findings and recommendations, with regard to dealing with possession of heroin and other controlled substances, are presented here. (Author/DS)

A review of this court case leads to an examination of the historical and contemporary assumptions regarding the social and educational context of the use of corporal punishment on children. (MP)

The author presents a retrospective examination of the recurring conflict between the inculcation of America's cultural heritage and the development of the child as a free individual, by examining the concept of "school discipline" as practiced from colonial days through the twentieth century. (MJB)

In contrast to Gerard C. Penta's notion, this article maintains that the teacher must have the discretion to punish the misbehaving student and denies that this is necessarily authoritarian. (DS)

Describes America's changing response to the problem of crime since the 1960s. At that time, theories of criminal deviance supported rehabilitation of offenders and programs to eliminate root causes of crime. In the 1970s, several states have revised their criminal codes to stress even-handed punishment as the most effective deterrent to crime.…

Maintains that early childhood educators should employ a child guidance approach rather than punishment in disciplining young children in the classroom. (BB)

A mediated punishment procedure that involved recreating a behavioral sequence by guiding the subject through the behavior in the situation in which it occurred was used to suppress several severe behavior problems in two severely handicapped children (ages 4 and 17). (Author/DB)