2,105
Views
6
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Articles

Children's Human Rights and Social Work Advocacy: “Lawful Correction”

ORCID Icon
Pages 490-502 | Received 30 Sep 2018, Accepted 14 Jan 2019, Published online: 23 Jun 2019

References

  • Australian Association of Social Workers. (2013). Position paper: Child well-being and protection. Retrieved from https://www.aasw.asn.au/document/item/2215
  • Australian Association of Social Workers. (2016). Position paper: Federal election 2016: Family violence. Retrieved from https://www.aasw.asn.au/document/item/8625
  • Australian Association of Social Workers. (2018). Position description: Accredited family violence social worker. Retrieved from https://www.aasw.asn.au/membership-information/accredited-family-violence-social-worker-afvsw
  • Burnside, J. (2017). Watching out: Reflections on justice and injustice. Brunswick, Victoria: Scribe Publications.
  • Bussmann, K. (2004). Evaluating the subtle impact of a ban on corporal punishment of children in Germany. Child Abuse Review, 13, 292–311. doi: 10.1002/car.866
  • Butchart, A., Phinney, H., Kahane, T., Mian, M., & Furniss, T. (2006). Preventing child maltreatment: A guide to action and generating evidence. Geneva: World Health Organization.
  • Cappa, C., & Petrowski, N. (2017). A familiar face: Violence in the lives of children. New York: Unicef.
  • Cappa, C., Petrowski, N., Cordisco Tsai, L., Coskun, Y., & Murray, C. (2014). Hidden in plain sight: A statistical analysis of violence against children. New York: Unicef.
  • Children and Parents Code. (1949). Chapter 6, Section 1.
  • Coleman, D., Dodge, K., & Campbell, S. (2010). Where and how to draw the line between reasonable corporal punishment and abuse. Law and Contemporary Problems, 73, 107–165.
  • Committee on the Rights of the Child. (2006). General comment no. 8 (2006): The right of the child to protection from corporal punishment and other cruel or degrading forms of punishment (articles 19, 28(2) and 37, inter alia). Retrieved from www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/crc/docs/GC8_en.doc
  • Committee on the Rights of the Child. (2011). General comment no. 13 (2011): Article 19: The right of the child to freedom from all forms of violence. Retrieved from http://www.crin.org/docs/CRC.C.GC.13_en_AUV-1.pdf
  • Committee on the Rights of the Child. (2012). Concluding observations: Australia, Sixtieth session 29 May – 15 June. Retrieved from https://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/crc/docs/co/CRC_C_AUS_CO_4.pdf
  • De Kretser, H. (2018). Why we need an Australian Charter of Rights? 2018 Higginbotham Lecture, RMIT University, 20 September. Retrieved from https://www.rmit.edu.au/events/all-events/public-lectures/2018/september/why-australia-needs-human-rights-act
  • D'Souza, A. J., Russell, M., Wood, B., Signal, L., & Elder, D. (2016). Attitudes to physical punishment are changing. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 101(8), 690–693. doi: 10.1136/archdischild-2015-310119
  • Durrant, J. (2016). Positive discipline in everyday parenting. Sweden: Save the Children. Retrieved from http://www.positivedisciplineeveryday.com/public/forparentsTwo.php
  • Durrant, J., & Ensom, R. (2017). Twenty-five years of physical punishment research: What have we learned? Journal of the Korean Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 28(1), 20–24. doi: 10.5765/jkacap.2017.28.1.20
  • Frechette, S., Zoratti, M., & Romano, E. (2015). What is the link between corporal punishment and child abuse? Journal of Family Violence, 30, 135–148. doi: 10.1007/s10896-014-9663-9
  • Freeman, M. (1979). Violence in the home: A socio-legal study. Aldershot: Gower.
  • Freeman, M. (1999). Children are unbeatable. Children & Society, 13, 130–141. doi: 10.1111/j.1099-0860.1999.tb00114.x
  • Freeman, M. (2000a). The end of the century of the child. In M. Freeman (Ed.), Current legal problems (pp. 505–558). Oxford: Oxford Univerisity Press.
  • Freeman, M. (2000b). The future of children's rights. Children & Society, 14, 277–293. doi: 10.1111/j.1099-0860.2000.tb00183.x
  • Freeman, M., & Saunders, B. J. (2014). Can we conquer child abuse if we don't outlaw physical chastisement of children? The International Journal of Children’s Rights, 22, 681–709. doi: 10.1163/15718182-02204002
  • Gershoff, E. T., & Grogan-Kaylor, A. (2016). Spanking and child outcomes: Old controversies and new meta-analyses. Journal of Family Psychology, 30(4), 453–469. doi: 10.1037/fam0000191
  • Gil, D. (1975). Unraveling child abuse. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 45(3), 346–356. doi: 10.1111/j.1939-0025.1975.tb02545.x
  • Global Initiative. (2018). End corporal punishment of children. Retrieved from http://endcorporalpunishment.org/
  • Healy, L. (2008). Exploring the history of social work as a human rights profession. International Social Work, 51(6), 735–748. doi: 10.1177/0020872808095247
  • Higgins, M., & Norman, P. (2018). The difference. On Solastaglia. Australia: EMI Music Australia.
  • Holden, G., Grogan-Kaylor, A., Durrant, J., & Gershoff, E. (2017). Researchers deserve a better critique: Response to Larzelere, Gunnoe, Roberts, and Ferguson (2017). Marriage & Family Review, 53(5), 465–490. doi: 10.1080/01494929.2017.1308899
  • International Federation of Social Work (IFSW). (2014). Global definition of social work. Retrieved from http://ifsw.org/get-involved/global-definition-of-social-work/
  • James, A., & Prout, A. (1997). Constructing and reconstructing childhood: Contemporary issues in the sociological study of childhood. London: Falmer Press.
  • Johnson, K. (1998). Crime or punishment: The parental corporal punishment defense: Reasonable and necessary, or excused abuse? University of Illinois Law Review, 2, 413–487.
  • Lansdown, G. (2000). Children's rights and domestic violence. Child Abuse Review, 9, 416–426. doi: 10.1002/1099-0852(200011/12)9:6<416::AID-CAR660>3.0.CO;2-P
  • Lansford, J., Deater-Deckard, K., Bornstein, M., Putnick, D., & Bradley, R. (2014). Attitudes justifying domestic violence predict endorsement of corporal punishment and physical and psychological aggression towards children: A study in 25 low- and middle-income countries. The Journal of Pediatrics, 164(5), 1208–1213. doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2013.11.060
  • Larzelere, R., Gunnoe, M., Roberts, M., & Ferguson, C. (2017). Children and parents deserve better parental discipline research: Critiquing the evidence for exclusively “positive” parenting. Marriage & Family Review, 53(1), 24–35. doi: 10.1080/01494929.2016.1145613
  • Lee, S., Grogan-Kaylor, A., & Berger, L. (2014). Parental spanking of 1-year-old children and subsequent child protection services involvement. Child Abuse & Neglect, 38, 875–883. doi: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2014.01.018
  • Leviner, P. (2013). The ban on corporal punishment of children changing laws to change attitudes: The Swedish experience. Alternative Law Journal, 38(3), 156–159. doi: 10.1177/1037969X1303800305
  • Maguire-Jack, K., Gromoske, A., & Berger, L. (2012). Spanking and child development during the first five years of life. Child Development, 83(6), 1960–1977. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2012.01820.x
  • Mayoh, L. (2010). Mum jailed for slapping drunk daughter, 16. The Sunday Telegraph, May 9. Retrieved from http://www.news.com.au/national-old/mum-jailed-for-slapping-drunk-daughter-16/story-e6frfkvr-1225864070836
  • Moore, S., Scott, J., Ferrari, A., Mills, R., Dunne, M., & Erskine, H. (2015). Burden attributable to child maltreatment in Australia. Child Abuse & Neglect, 48, 208–220. doi: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2015.05.006
  • Mulley, C. (2009). The woman who saved the children. Great Britain: Oneworld Publications.
  • Naylor, B., & Saunders, B. (2009). Whose rights? Children, parents and discipline. Alternative Law Journal, 34(2), 80–85. doi: 10.1177/1037969X0903400202
  • New Zealand Police. (2013). 11th review of the crimes (Substituted Section 59) Amendment Act 2007. Retrieved from http://www.police.govt.nz/sites/default/files/resources/other-reports/11th-review-section-59.pdf
  • Nielssen, O., Large, M., Westmore, B., & Lackersteen, S. (2009). Child homicide in New South Wales from 1991 to 2005. Medical Journal of Australia, 190(1), 7–11.
  • Olding, R. (2017). Father to face court again for hitting his child. The Sydney Morning Herald, 4 June, 3.
  • O’Reilly, L., & Dolan, P. (2016). The voice of the child in social work asssessments: Age-related appropriate communication with children. British Journal of Social Work, 46(5), 1191–1207. doi: 10.1093/bjsw/bcv040
  • Peleg, N. (2011). Time to grow up: The UN Committee on the rights of the child's jurispudence of the right to development. In M. Freeman (Ed.), Law and childhood studies: Current legal issues (pp. 371–391). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Pinheiro, P. (2006). Rights of the child: Report of the independent expert for the United Nations study on violence against children. United Nations General Assembly: Sixty-first session. Retrieved from https://www.unicef.org/violencestudy/reports/SG_violencestudy_en.pdf
  • Postman, N. (1982). The disappearance of childhood. New York: Delacorte Press.
  • Rodrigo, M. (2010). Promoting positive parenting in Europe: New challenges for the European Society for Developmental Psychology. European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 7(1), 281–294. doi: 10.1080/17405621003780200
  • R v Hopley 2F and F202 (1860).
  • Rosier, K. (2017). The prevalence of child abuse and neglect. Melbourne: Australian Government, Child Family Community Austtralia. Retrieved from https://aifs.gov.au/cfca/publications/prevalence-child-abuse-and-neglect
  • Royal Australasian College of Physicians. (2013). Position statement: Physical punishment of children. Retrieved from https://www.racp.edu.au/docs/default-source/default-document-library/physical-punishment-of-children.pdf
  • Royal Children's Hospital and Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. (2010). Physical punishment. Policy Brief, 20. Retrieved from https://www.rch.org.au/uploadedFiles/Main/Content/ccch/PB_20_Physical_Punishment.pdf
  • Saunders, B. J. (2013). Ending the physical punishment of children by parents in the English-speaking world: The impact of language, tradition and law. International Journal of Children's Rights, 21(2), 278–304.
  • Saunders, B. J. (2017). Progress toward worldwide recognition of the child's human right to dignity, physical integrity and protection from harm. In M. D. Ruck, M. Peterson-Badali, & M. Freeman (Eds.), Handbook of children's rights: Global and multidisciplinary perspectives (pp. 239–258). New York and London: Routledge.
  • Saunders, B. J. (2018). Problematising “childism” and related language in the English-speaking world: The power of words to either thwart or progress the attainment of children’s human rights to freedom from corporal punishment and other degrading treatment. In B. J. Saunders, P. Leviner, & B. Naylor (Eds.), Corporal punishment of children: Comparative legal and social developments towards prohibition and beyond (pp. 59–88). The Netherlands: Brill/Nijhoff.
  • Saunders, B. J., & Goddard, C. (2010). Physical punishment in childhood:The rights of the child. Chicester: John Wiley & Sons.
  • Sewpaul, V. (2016). Politics with soul: Social work and the legacy of Nelson Mandela. International Social Work, 59(6), 697–708. doi: 10.1177/0020872815594226
  • Stewart-Tufescu, A., & Durrant, J. (2015). Corporal punishment, crime and human rights: Lessons from child-friendly justice. In S. Mahmoudi, P. Leviner, A. Kaldal, & K. Lainpelto (Eds.), Child-friendly justice (pp. 43–54). Leiden: Brill.
  • Straus, M., Douglas, E., & Medeiros, R. (2014). The primordial violence: Spanking children, psychological development, violence, and crime. New York and London: Routledge.
  • Taylor, C., Fleckman, J., Scholer, M., & Branco, M. (2018). US pediatricians attitudes, beliefs, and perceived injuctive norms about spanking. Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics, 39(7), 564–572.
  • Taylor, J., & Redman, S. (2004). The smacking controversy: What advice should we be giving to parents? Journal of Advanced Nursing, 46(3), 311–318. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2648.2004.02993.x
  • United Nations. (1989). Convention on the rights of the child. Retrieved from http://www.unicef.org/crc/crc.htm
  • White Ribbon Australia. (2016). White Ribbon Australia: Policy: The issue of corporal punishment. Retrieved from https://www.whiteribbon.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/WR_Policy_Corporal_Punishment.pdf
  • Wilczynski, A. (1995). Child killing by parents: A motivational model. Child Abuse Review, 4, 365–370. doi: 10.1002/car.189
  • Woodman, K., Paterson, E., & Arnot, J. (2018). Identifying the evidence relevant to the proposed prohibition of the physical punishment of children and young people in Scotland: A systematic review. The Lancet, 392(2), S95. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(18)32926-X
  • Young-Bruehl, E. (2009). Childism: prejudice against children. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 45(2), 251–265. doi: 10.1080/00107530.2009.10745998

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.