TY - BOOK AU - Straus,Murray A. TI - The primordial violence: spanking children, psychological development, violence, and crime SN - 9781848729520 AV - BF575.A3 S77 2014 U1 - 362.7/874 23 PY - 2014/// CY - New York PB - Routledge KW - Violence KW - Psychological aspects KW - Corporal punishment of children KW - Child rearing KW - Child abuse N1 - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; Prevalence and social causes of spanking -- The social and scientific context of research on spanking -- Corporal punishment in the United States -- Spanking in world perspective -- There was an old woman who lived in a shoe -- Approval of violence and spanking children -- Spanking and child behavior problems -- Chapter 6:the boomerang effect of spanking -- Impulsive spanking, never spanking and child well-being -- The child-to-mother bond and delinquency -- Spanking and risky sex -- Spanking and human capital -- Mental ability -- College graduation -- Spanking and crime -- What explains the link between spanking and assaulting a partner? -- Assault and injury of dating partners by university students in 32 nations -- Cultural context & the relation of spanking to crime -- Spanking high risk children and adult crime -- Sexual coercion and sexual assault -- Social trends in spanking -- The decline in approval of spanking -- Why everyone spanks toddlers and what to do about it -- Implications for crime and violence in society -- Obstacles to accepting the evidence -- A world without spanking -- References -- Appendix ER -