Re: Effectivenss of Swedish ban on spanking

["Steven Kairys" <kairysst@xxxxxxxxx>]

A paper by Sanden and Lundgren published by the Swedish government indicates that attitudes towards corporal punishment and behavior towards children have changed subsequent to the ban. 

Sanden, Asa and Lars Lundgren.  1997.  "Spanking of Children Much Less Common."  Statistika centralbryan.



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>>> murray.straus@unh.edu 03/10/00 11:09AM >>>
A paper that comes to just about the opposite conclusion than Larzelere
about the effects of the Swedish no-spanking law is:

Durrant, J. E. (1999). "Evaluating the success of Sweden's corporal
punishment ban." Child Abuse & Neglect 23(5): 435-448.

I will write to Durrant and suggest that she post a response to Larzeler's
claim on this list.

Murray A. Straus, Professor of Sociology
& Co-Director,  Family Research Laboratory
University of New Hampshire,  Durham, NH 03824
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----- Original Message -----
From: Rolf Nilsson <rnilsson@families.qld.gov.au>
To: Child Maltreatment Researchers
<CHILD-MALTREATMENT-RESEARCH-L@cornell.edu>
Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2000 7:51 PM
Subject: Re: APA Recommends that docs start screening patients for violence.


> Dear List Members,
>
> My background is that of working in direct child protection and the
management of staff dealing directly with abuse. I am stating that as a
caveat to the following article I think you would be well advised to have a
look at if you haven't already. It isn't always popular to look at
unappetising results such as those reported, but it is unwise to ignore
especially given Swedens' history of supportive and egalitarian social
structures and public policies.
>
> "Evaluations of the effects of Sweden's spanking ban on physical abuse
rates: a literature review" Larzelere R.E. Johnson B. (1999) Psychological
Reports, 1999, 85, 381 - 392.
>
> A quote from the review discussion states "No studies have demonstrated
that that the spanking ban has succeeded in reducing Swedish rates of child
abuse" (p390) and further
>
> " So it might be hypothesised that that the prohibition of all spanking
eliminates a type of mild spanking that prevents further escalation of
aggression within disciplinary incidents (Larzerlere, in press; see
Patterson's 1982 'coercive process' "
>
> I have not sought advice or permission from the authors to quote them -
but the article does state
>
> *please address correspondence to Robert E Larzerlere, Psychology
Department, Munroe-Meyer Institute, 98450 Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha. NE
68198-5450 or e-mail (Larzelerer@BoysTown.org)
>
> Rolf Nilsson
> AUSTRALIA
>



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