Well-designed institutions can make violence structurally unavailable rather than merely prohibited.

Evidence

Corporal punishment did not exist at Dom Sierot. This was not a rule, in the sense of a prohibition. It was a design consequence. In a community organized around the principle that children are rights-bearing individuals whose grievances deserve adjudication rather than suppression, the hit is not an available response — because the hit is, by definition, the suppression of a grievance rather than its adjudication. The system Korczak built at Dom Sierot did not need to prohibit corporal punishment, because the system had no place for it. — , The Rod and the Child, 8863

Categorization

• SEED: Article angle: design-consequence vs. prohibition approaches to violence prevention in institutions beyond schools.
• XREF: Echoes design-based versus rule-based governance arguments seen elsewhere in the book’s anti-corporal-punishment season. — connects to: Institutional accountability constrains violence exercised by authority figures. — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 2000; Law that excludes adversaries from fighting fails to restrain their violence — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 1040; The discipline-abuse legal line may facilitate rather than prevent abuse. — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 6685 (+4 more)

Related

• Power loses its ordering function if anyone can resort to violence freely (similarity 0.88)
• Institutional accountability constrains violence exercised by authority figures. (similarity 0.84)
• Institutional discipline correlates inversely with corporal violence. (similarity 0.80)
• Institutional structures, not ideology, determined severity of corporal practice (similarity 0.79)
• The discipline-abuse legal line may facilitate rather than prevent abuse. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Law that excludes adversaries from fighting fails to restrain their violence #corroborates (0.65) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 1040
• Group-based discipline can coerce as powerfully as individual violence #exemplifies (0.55) — , The Rod and the Child, 5601
• The discipline-abuse legal line may facilitate rather than prevent abuse. #qualifies (0.50) — , The Rod and the Child, 6685