Re: perpetrator punishment

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We are preseniting a paper at the New Hampshire Unviersity conference on 
Victimization of Children and Youth on 6/26/00 which may have some
information of relevance. Murray Levine
On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, William Hobart
Davies wrote:

> One of my students is completing her master's thesis looking at
> perceptions of appropriate punishments for perpetrators of shaken baby
> syndrome.  Can anyone help us in locating literature for child physical
> abuse in general on the effects of
> perpetrator gender and/or perpetrator relationship to victim (in our case
> parent vs caregiver) on 1) beliefs about appropriate punishment; or 2)
> actual sentencing patterns.  We are looking at both legal
> sanctions as well as perceived need to prevent contact with this or other
> children.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any assistance.
> 
> Hobey
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