BRIEFING PAPERS:​

• Corporal punishment of children in Australia: The evidence-based case for legislative reform, Briefing paper, Daryl Higgins and Sophie Havighurst, 2022. Download here.

• Smacking and physical punishment, Commissioner for Children & Young People, South Australia​

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​RESEARCH PAPERS:

• Chainey, C., & Whittle, S. (Eds). (2024). Guest editors' introduction to special issue on corporal punishment of children in Australia. Australian Journal of Social Issues, 59 (3).

• Fussey E, Gerry F, Herbert B, S Havighurst, D Higgins, Schaff O, Rowland AG (2024). Equal Protection from Assault in England and Northern Ireland: The Health, Education and Legal Case for legislative change to remove the “reasonable punishment” defence and to prohibit all physical punishment of children. London (UK): Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.

• Gonzalez, C., Morawska, A., Higgins, D. J., & Haslam, D. M. (2024). Acceptability of corporal punishment and use of different parenting practices across high-income countries, Australian Journal of Social Issues, 59 (3), 648-666.

• Greeff, L. A., (2024). Children's rights violations: Parental corporal punishment under the microscope, Australian Journal of Social Issues, 59 (3), 637-647.

• Greeff, L.-A. (2022). Corporal punishment in New South Wales: A call for repeal of section 61AA. Alternative Law Journal, 47(1), 30-35.

• Greeff, L.-A. (2024) Children's rights violations: Parental corporal punishment under the microscop. Australian Journal of Social Issues, 59 (3), 605–619. 

• Greeff, L.-A. (2024) The normative nature of corporal punishment in Australia. Australian Journal of Social Issues, 59 (3), 620–636. 

• Haslam, D. M., Malacova, E., Higgins, D., Meinck, F., Mathews, B., Thomas, H., Finkelhor, D., Havighurst, S., Pacella, R., Erskine, H., Scott, J. G., & Lawrence, D. (2024). The prevalence of corporal punishment in Australia: Findings from a nationally representative survey. Australian Journal of Social Issues, 147.

• Havighurst, S. S., Mathews, B., Doyle, F. L., Haslam, D. M., Andriessen, K., Cubillo, C., Dawe, S., Hawes, D. J., Leung, C., Mazzucchelli, T. G., Morawska, A., Whittle, S., Chainey, C., & Higgins, D. J. (2023). Corporal punishment of children in Australia: The evidence-based case for legislative reform. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 47 (3).

• Peter Miller, Ryan Baldwin, Kerri Coomber, Bowman Nixon, Nicholas Taylor, Alexa Hayley, Dominique de Andrade (2022). The association of childhood physical abuse, masculinity, intoxication, trait aggression with victimization in nightlife districts. Child Abuse & Neglect, 23.

• Rowland, A., Gerry, F., & Stanton, M. (2017). Physical Punishment of Children: Time to End the Defence of Reasonable Chastisement in the UK, USA and Australia. International journal of children’s rights, 25, 165-195.

• Saunders, B. J. (2019). Children’s Human Rights and Social Work Advocacy: “Lawful Correction.”  Australian Social Work, 72(4), 490–502.

• Savage, L. (2024) Corporal punishment: Why the intentional use of violence against children is still acceptable. Australian Journal of Social Issues, 59 (3), 667–675.

• Shafiq, M., Munir, A., & Little, S. (2024). Misconceptions about corporal punishment in Islam, Australian Journal of Social Issues, 59 (3), 676-686.

• Slep, A. M. S., Rhoades, K. A., Lorber, M. F., & Heyman, R. E. (2024). Glimpsing the Iceberg: Parent-Child Physical Aggression and Abuse. Child Maltreatment, 29(2), 219-232.