Corporal Punishment of Children ― Comparative Legal and Social Developments Towards Prohibition and Beyond

Corporal Punishment of Children - Comparative Legal and Social Developments towards Prohibition and Beyond, provides country-specific insights and thematic understandings in relation to children’s ongoing experience of corporal punishment, and aims to advance recognition of children’s human rights to dignity and to optimal development.

Bernadette J. Saunders Ph.D. (2005), Monash University, is Course Coordinator and Senior Lecturer/Researcher, Social Work, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Her publications and inter-disciplinary research largely focus upon injustices, resulting from law, language and culture, impacting disadvantaged groups, especially children.

Pernilla Leviner Ph.D. (2011), Stockholm University, is Associate Professor in Public Law Stockholm University, Sweden. Her research interests lie specifically in child law and social welfare law and her publications deal with the relation between the state, the family and the individual.

Bronwyn Naylor Ph.D. (1998), Cambridge University, is Professor of Law in the Graduate School of Business and Law at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. Her research covers doctrinal, socio-legal and criminological work, usually in interdisciplinary collaborations.