Susquehanna Valley Central School abolished corporal punishment for practical reasons. At Perry Junior-Senior High School, there is a feeling on the part of parents, students, and teachers that all students are dealt with fairly and impartially since the adoption, two years ago, of the Cause-Effect Discipline Code. (Author/AM)

In summary, adopt written policies that explicitly cover all aspects of corporal punishment and other disciplinary procedures; review those policies at least once every two years to keep them current. (Author/IRT)

Reviews the position taken by the Supreme Court in supporting corporal punishment, asserts that corporal punishment is demeaning, and lists alternative approaches to the control of students. (IRT)

Discusses the issue of moral blame as it relates to the AIDS epidemic. Argues that regarding AIDS as divine punishment for immorality is ethically and theologically unsound, resulting in a poor response to the AIDS crisis. States that self-righteous moral judgment is an inappropriate and un-Christian reaction toward AIDS victims. (GEA)

The article defines punishment; describes types of punishers used with handicapped students (response cost, time out, overcorrection, contingent exercise, aversive conditioning); discusses the role of punishers; outlines policies and procedures; and gives guidelines for establishing priority levels of target behaviors and hierarchical levels of…

The National Collegiate Athletic Association barred Southern Methodist University from playing football next season and restricted its schedule for the season after that. The penalties are intended to eliminate a program that was built on a legacy of wrongdoing, deceit, and rules violations. (MLW)

Reviews the 1977 Supreme Court decision in "Ingraham vs. Wright." The court held that the cruel and unusual punishment clause of the Eighth Amendment and the procedural due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment did not apply to corporal punishment in the public schools. (MD)

Day care has a significant effect on children's conceptions of social rules that is not related to egocentrism or a lack of stimulus familiarity. Moral transgressions were regarded as equally serious by veterans and newly enrolled, while the distinction between morality and convention was unclear for the newly enrolled. (RH))

Changes in imitative behavior of two preschool children with highly oppositional behaviors were examined as a function of adult models' use of differential attention and time-out. Results showed that the children's oppositional behavior varied predictably with the presence and absence of differential attention and time-out. (Author/CL)

Traces the history of corporal punishment in the public schools and discusses its use today. (FL)

The aims of punishment as traditionally conceived are, in the case of children, incompatible with the aims of moral education. The onus of justification must rest with those who wish to impose upon children. (Author/RM)

Discusses the Swedish legal prohibition of corporal punishment based on Garbarino's model for research on child abuse and a secondary analysis of statistical data. Results showed the soft approach of the Swedish act, aiming at a long-term change of attitudes, is highly effective. (JAC)

Two experiments investigated whether adolescents who are considered persistently anti-social by their teachers are generally inferior in acquiring avoidance behavior. (DP)

Findings support the hypothesis that sharing behavior, as indexed by amount shared, is higher in children who observe a selfish model being punished than in children in the baseline group. (Authors/CB)

The present study was designed to investigate the influence of one factor which has frequently been cited as an effective inhibitor of overt aggression, that of threatened punishment for such behavior. (Author/RK)