School corporal punishment independently predicts higher juvenile justice contact beyond poverty and region
Evidence
Jacob Kang-Brown and colleagues at the Vera Institute, in a 2013 national analysis of juvenile incarceration rates and school discipline data, identified a direct statistical relationship between school corporal punishment prevalence and juvenile justice involvement. The relationship persisted after controlling for poverty, racial composition, and geographic region. School corporal punishment was independently associated with higher rates of juvenile justice contact — a finding the neurobiological evidence reviewed in this season’s earlier episodes can explain through multiple pathways: fear conditioning, school avoidance, disrupted attachment to the educational institution. — , The Rod and the Child, 7459
Categorization
- XREF: Connects directly to this season’s neurobiological evidence on fear conditioning and disrupted attachment reviewed in earlier episodes. — connects to: Child corporal punishment persists even among the wealthiest African households — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 4722; School corporal punishment remains legal in 17 US states with 66,000 annual instances — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 5131; A 75-study meta-analysis ties child corporal correction to aggression and lower cognition. — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 5716 (+5 more)
- QUESTION: Worth chasing: whether the causal direction can be resolved — the source itself flags it as contested while the association is robust.