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Corporal punishment has been documented as a part of the education of children around the world as far back as ancient Greece (Pate and Gould in Corporal Punishment around the World. Praeger, Santa Barbara, 2012).
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Gershoff, E.T., Purtell, K.M., Holas, I. (2015). The Legal Basis for School Corporal Punishment. In: Corporal Punishment in U.S. Public Schools. SpringerBriefs in Psychology(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14818-2_6
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