Corporal Punishment, Religion, and United States Public Schools

Jane Hall Fitz-Gibbon was Visiting Scholar with the Center for Development of Human Services, Buffalo State College, USA. She works in crisis support with TST BOCES, and is involved with the Department of Social Services, co-leading courses on foster care, adoption, and child sexual abuse. She is the author, co-author, or editor of six books.

• 1. Corporal Punishment in Public Schools: What are the Issues?.- 2. Data and Legal Issues.- 3. Religion, Education Pioneers, and Corporal Punishment.- 4. Corporal Punishment and the use of Sacred Texts.- 5. The Theological Tradition of Nonviolence.- 6. The Ethical Position of No Harm.

“Jane Hall Fitz-Gibbon offers us a welcome addition to broaden and further nuance our understanding of education in American schools. … Taken together and argued with philosophical delicacy, Fitz-Gibbon delivers a damning argument for the abolition of corporal punishment in United States’ public schools.” (Wendy C. Hamblet, metapsychology online reviews, metapsychology.mentalhelp.net, Vol. 21 (32), August, 2017)