In parts of the 19 states where the practice is still legal, corporal punishment in schools is used as much as 50 percent more frequently on children who are African American or who have disabilities, a new analysis of 160,000 ...
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Oct 5, 2016
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California voters oppose an effort to abolish the death penalty and strongly support a competing measure that would streamline procedures in capital cases, according to a new poll released today by the Institute of Governmental ...
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Aug 19, 2016
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Australian law may be on the cusp of a brain-based revolution that will reshape the way we deal with criminals.
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May 26, 2016
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What makes human morality unique? One important answer is that we care when other people are harmed. While many animals retaliate when directly mistreated, humans also get outraged at transgressions against others. And this ...
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Feb 25, 2016
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Through a recent study, a University of Kentucky doctoral student found racial disparities in disciplinary policies in American middle and high schools.
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Feb 24, 2016
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Targeted punishments could provide a path to international climate change cooperation, new research in game theory has found.
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Aug 25, 2015
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After eight years on death row, Yakub Memon, who was convicted in 2007 for his role in financing the deadly 1993 Mumbai bombings in which 257 people died, was hanged at a prison in Nagpur, India.
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Aug 4, 2015
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It's a practice that has been in the news since the Ashley Smith case first made headlines and, last week, the Ontario government announced it had launched a review of its solitary confinement policies.
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Apr 1, 2015
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(Phys.org)—A team of researchers with ties to several different institutions in Australia has published a paper in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B refuting claims made by other researchers that the advent ...
A team of University of Florida researchers is calling for an immediate end to paddling students in all state public schools, citing its new study of classroom disciplinary trends that depicts corporal punishment as violent ...
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Jan 22, 2015
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