Experience of Parental Corporal Punishment in Childhood and Adolescence and its Effect on Punitiveness |
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Authors: | Stefanie Kemme Michael Hanslmaier Christian Pfeiffer |
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Institution: | 1. Criminological Research Institute of Lower Saxony, Hanover, Germany 2. Faculty of Law, Institute of Criminal Sciences, University of Hamburg, Rothenbaumchaussee 33, 20148, Hamburg, Germany
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Abstract: | The family, as the primary instance of socialization, plays a key role in nurturing values and attitudes. Based on this notion, this paper looks at how parental corporal punishment in childhood and adolescence, as an expression of a strict, authoritarian upbringing, can influence punitiveness later in life. The results of a representative German sample using multivariate analyses show that individuals who were physically punished or abused by their parents during childhood or adolescence are more punitive than non-victims of parental violence. Based on these findings, the question of whether changing parenting styles might have implications at the macro-level of punitiveness is addressed. |
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