OBJECTIVE To describe parents' current perception of corporal punishment associated to child rearing and its practices. METHODOLOGICAL PROCEDURES There were studied 31 family members whose children were warded due to child abuse complaints (12) and not warded (19) at a health care unit and a local social service unit in the city of Belo Horizonte (Southeastern Brazil) in 2006. Data was collec...

There are debates around the legitimacy of capital punishment, i.e., whether death could serve as a proper execution in our legal system or not. Different arguments have been raised. However, none of them seem able to provide a determined answer to the issue; this results in a lack of instruction in the legal practice. This article, therefore, devotes itself to the effort to find such an answer...

Prestige Restoration is the means by which convicted person returns to original state after being charged and convicted, acts restore his or her dignity serving imprisonment punishment through legal judicial channels. There are several conditions for restoration of prestige according law, is; serve whole punishment, amnesty, mitigation suspension punishment. In addition, two types considered; b...

Use of corporal punishment to manage discipline continues in primary schools in Kenya despite its ban through a legal notice of the year 2001. There have been several reported cases of teacher use of corporal punishment in schools implying failure of interventions such as guidance and counselling to yield expected results in improving discipline in schools. This study therefore investigated tea...

1. There is a way of thinking about law that contemporary normative theorists on criminalization and legal punishment are particularly anxious about, and that way is to conceive law as involving legal coercion in the manner of threats. This way of conceiving law is unsurprising, especially when we look at criminal law; it prescribes requirements of conduct (e.g. do not murder) for which we are ...

Illustrations by the Dutch renaissance artists Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Jan Wierix both show a man imprisoned on a pillory, a former place of enforcement of judicial sentences, and playing a musical instrument. Taken as legal iconographic sources, these illustrations of the old saying 'He plays on the pillory' can be understood as references to a specific kind of punishment used in the Midd...

Different nations’ tendency to expand their judicial and legislative territory outside their ruling kingdom has caused conflicts in the criminal qualification and the coming into existence of legal bad effects. Among these bad effects is the double or additional punishment of someone who has been tried and received their penalty in another country before, which is at odds with the principles of...