Punishment

Religion Study Reveals Faithful's Conflicting Impulses

Posted 05.23.2012

By: Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer Published: 05/22/2012 07:14 PM EDT on LiveScience Believing in an involved, morally active God m...

Do You Yell at Your Kids? Do You Think They Deserve It?

Jennifer Lehr | Posted 05.15.2012

Jennifer Lehr

You are the adult in the relationship and so it is up to you to calm yourself so that you don't take your anger (likely derived from fear) out on your kid.

Humiliating Children In Public: A New Parenting Trend?

Lisa Belkin | Posted 05.01.2012

Lisa Belkin

Maybe it's because the weather has been unseasonably calm this year, but there has been a rash of examples of parents forcing their children to stand out in the open with signs declaring the ways in which the youngsters have misbehaved.

What Are Some Aspects of Incarceration That Could Not Possibly Be Guessed by Someone Who Hasn't Experienced It?

Quora | Posted 05.19.2012

Quora

This question originally appeared on Quora. Eric "Phil" Phillips, San Quentin inmate. One aspect is the amazing amount of talent in prison. There ...

Study Shows Severe Inequity In Courtrooms

AP | NEDRA PICKLER | Posted 05.04.2012

WASHINGTON — A new study shows that federal judges are handing out widely disparate sentences for similar crimes 30 years after Congress tried t...

WATCH: Teen Forced To Hold Sign Reading 'I Steal From My Family'

Posted 02.15.2012

Last week, a North Carolina father shot his teenage daughter's laptop as punishment. Now, a Tennessee mother has made her 13-year-old daughter stand o...

Don't Blame Judges for Racial Disparity

Julie Stewart | Posted 04.09.2012

Julie Stewart

Members of Congress who believe offenders should be punished for their conduct and not the color of their skin should take heed.

Punishment Helps Kids Learn To Lie

Art Markman, Ph.D. | Posted 03.04.2012

Art Markman, Ph.D.

There is some research suggesting that when children grow up in an environment with extensive physical and verbal punishment they are at risk for behavioral problems as they get older.

Iranian Actress Faces 90 Lashes For Movie Role

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 12.10.2011

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- An Iranian opposition website says an Iranian actress has been sentenced to a year in prison and 90 lashes for appearin...

A Parent's Concern: Does the Punishment Fit the Crime?

Linnie Frank Bailey | Posted 11.13.2011

Linnie Frank Bailey

One evening a few years ago, I received a frantic phone call from a friend. She was sitting in her driveway guarding her son's video gaming systems. They were on the front curb next to the family's trash cans.

Deport Me! Foreign-Born in American Prisons and the U.S. Culture of Punishment

Baz Dreisinger | Posted 05.31.2011

Baz Dreisinger

Alvin McLean has a peculiar request for the powers that be: deport me, please. Odder than his request is the state government's refusal to oblige it.

Key Lethal Injection Drug Ceases Production

AP | ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS | Posted 05.25.2011

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The sole U.S. manufacturer of a key lethal injection drug said Friday it is ending production because of death-penalty oppositi...

Bribery Or Intrinsic Motivation: Which Drives YOU?

Christine Carter, PhD | Posted 11.17.2011

Christine Carter, PhD

The best way is to work with my kids' natural, intrinsic drive to be productive -- even creative -- contributors to our household.

WATCH: Thai Teacher Caught On Camera Caning Students

Posted 05.25.2011

BANGKOK (AP) -- Secretly recorded cell phone footage has exposed a teacher at a Catholic boarding school in northeastern Thailand who whacked dozens o...

"Teacher -- He Copied!"

Nancy Cronk | Posted 05.25.2011

Nancy Cronk

All of us make mistakes. If you are human, you make mistakes. If you are in politics, you make a lot of them. But plagiarism is one of those crimes people learn about in kindergarten.

Crime and Healing

Robert Koehler | Posted 05.25.2011

Robert Koehler

Restorative Justice has been around for about 20 years now. It's slowly gaining a foothold in court systems and schools around the world: It is part, I'm certain, of an invisible wave of change that is transforming the planet.

Confessions of a Sentencing Judge

Judge H. Lee Sarokin | Posted 05.25.2011

Judge H. Lee Sarokin

Balancing the need to protect the public within the limits imposed by the law and the Constitution is an awesome task for a judge. Let me assure you that it is nothing like the TV judges, who rap their gavel and then say: "Next case."

Female Journalist Sentenced To 60 Lashes For Sex Show On Saudi Arabia TV

AP | DONNA ABU-NASR | Posted 05.25.2011

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — A Saudi court on Saturday sentenced a female journalist to 60 lashes after she had been charged with involvement in a TV ...

We Shall Not Be Moved

Robert Koehler | Posted 05.25.2011

Robert Koehler

What struck me about these teachers was their commitment to a loving, caring, peace-building process -- in the face not simply of difficult students but the forces of cynicism and burnout.

Stop Beating Students with Disabilities in Schools

Alice Farmer | Posted 05.25.2011

Alice Farmer

Corporal punishment causes pain, humiliation, and in some cases deep bruising or other serious injury; it also can have long-lasting psychological consequences.

Torture, American-Style

Anne-Marie Cusac | Posted 05.25.2011

Anne-Marie Cusac

What astonished me was not the Abu Ghraib torture, but the public's shock and dismay. How could people be so surprised when so many of the same practices had already happened here?

"The Jim Crow Laws of the 21st Century": Will New York Change?

Odile Weissenborn | Posted 05.25.2011

Odile Weissenborn

In New York, the 36-year-old Rockefeller Drug Laws may be massively overhauled.

Maryland Needs to Repeal the Death Penalty -- Now

Gov. Martin O'Malley | Posted 05.25.2011

Gov. Martin O'Malley

I've asked Marylanders to urge their state senators to end capital punishment in our state. I believe we will fail our children and ourselves if we allow these executions to continue.

Kids for Cash

Robert Koehler | Posted 05.25.2011

Robert Koehler

A number of bad ideas and virulent trends in American life converge, it seems to me, in the unfolding scandal in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., known as "kids for cash."

Bush the Teflon Man

Logan Nakyanzi Pollard | Posted 05.25.2011

Logan Nakyanzi Pollard

Perhaps it was the sexual nature of Eliot Spitzer's offenses that made the shame stick. That and the fact that the former NY governor admitted he did wrong. Bush by contrast is today's Teflon man.