The Connection Between Corporal Punishment in the Public School System and Our Nation’s Crime Rates
Shannon Rose
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The Connection Between Corporal Punishment in the Public School System and Our Nation’s Crime Rates.
All states will have crime but not all states allow corporal punishment in the public school system, currently twenty states have not prohibited the use of corporal punishment in the United States. Corporal Punishment has many definitions one is defined as physical punishment to the body; with children it is generally a spanking with a paddle on the buttocks, another definition “Is the infliction of physical pain in response to wrongdoing, typically by methodically striking a particular part of the offender's body with an implement such as a paddle, or with the open hand. Its purpose is to correct reform and deter the miscreant and to deter others from similar misconduct”. (Conservapedia-Corporal Punishment) If a person were to learn right from wrong at an early age and have a healthy respect for authority figures and fear the consequences for their actions society would be different. This does start in the home when the child is young and how they are disciplined in the public school system. Children seem to have little respect these days and the school systems are over run with unruly adolescence that grow into disrespectful adults. The crime rates go up and down every year and yet does anyone wonder if it is because children were not punished in the schools with corporal punishment and now they are a grown generation of reckless wild teens that turn into society’s undesirables. The point I am making is the connection between the lack of corporal punishment in the public school system and the climbing crime rates within our nation. Out of the 88% that oppose corporal punishment their crime rates are significantly higher than those states do. (2010 Crime State Rankings) Does this mean there could be a connection between using the paddle and not using the paddle? The remaining 12% that use corporal punishment only
English 112
The Connection Between Corporal Punishment in the Public School System and Our Nation’s Crime Rates.
All states will have crime but not all states allow corporal punishment in the public school system, currently twenty states have not prohibited the use of corporal punishment in the United States. Corporal Punishment has many definitions one is defined as physical punishment to the body; with children it is generally a spanking with a paddle on the buttocks, another definition “Is the infliction of physical pain in response to wrongdoing, typically by methodically striking a particular part of the offender's body with an implement such as a paddle, or with the open hand. Its purpose is to correct reform and deter the miscreant and to deter others from similar misconduct”. (Conservapedia-Corporal Punishment) If a person were to learn right from wrong at an early age and have a healthy respect for authority figures and fear the consequences for their actions society would be different. This does start in the home when the child is young and how they are disciplined in the public school system. Children seem to have little respect these days and the school systems are over run with unruly adolescence that grow into disrespectful adults. The crime rates go up and down every year and yet does anyone wonder if it is because children were not punished in the schools with corporal punishment and now they are a grown generation of reckless wild teens that turn into society’s undesirables. The point I am making is the connection between the lack of corporal punishment in the public school system and the climbing crime rates within our nation. Out of the 88% that oppose corporal punishment their crime rates are significantly higher than those states do. (2010 Crime State Rankings) Does this mean there could be a connection between using the paddle and not using the paddle? The remaining 12% that use corporal punishment only