Nearly a half-century after the Supreme Court ruled that school spankings are permissible and not “cruel and unusual punishment,” many U.S. states allow ...

Forms of punishment for students might be a discipline slip, after-school detention or a trip to the principal’s office.

Investigators later discovered that Daniel and his wife, Ashley, had forced their daughter to jump on a trampoline for an ...

Time-outs are nonviolent, but they are still a form of punishment. A child in time-out typically feels socially isolated and rejected, and they may come to believe that their parents’ love is ...

the form of punishment could no longer be the king’s prerogative. The Magna Carta (1215) had prohibited arrest and other like actions unless carried out according to “the law of the land ...

Alternative types of punishment have been introduced due to the increase in the prison population, high reoffending rates, influence on inmates through contact with other criminals, and the ...

typically poor communities of color. As a form of collective punishment, such policing is contrary to international human rights law.

Time-outs are nonviolent, but they are still a form of punishment. A child in time-out typically feels socially isolated and rejected, and they may come to believe that their parents’ love is ...