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Chapter Twelve “Correcting what is evil in the child”: Child Corporal Punishment and Canadian Law

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Chapters in this book

  1. Front Matter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Acknowledgements xi
  4. Radical Resilience for the Times We Live In 1
  5. Grounding Our Work
  6. Violence, Trauma, and Resilience 13
  7. Violence Against Women: A Structural Perspective 43
  8. Easier Said Than Done: Disclosing Gender-Based Violence in the MeToo Era 75
  9. Giving Voice to Women and Children Killed in the Context of Domestic Homicide: Lessons Learned from Death Review Committees 99
  10. Intentionally Marginalized Communities and Violence
  11. Systemic Oppression, Violence, and Healing in Indigenous Families and Communities 147
  12. Black Out: State-Sanctioned Violence and the Black Experience in Canada 189
  13. Linking the Structural Violence of Immigration to Gender-Based Violence Against Immigrant, Refugee, and Non-Status Women in Canada 213
  14. Taking Up Power, Control, and Exclusion: Partner Abuse Within LGBTQI2S+ Communities 243
  15. Violence, Protection, and Empowerment in the Lives of People with Disabilities 283
  16. Violence Across the Life Course
  17. More Than Just “Ghosts in the Nursery”: How Violence and Trauma in the Lives of Infants and Young Children Affect Parenting and Child Development 321
  18. Addressing Child Maltreatment in Canada: What Have We Learned? 349
  19. “Correcting what is evil in the child”: Child Corporal Punishment and Canadian Law 405
  20. Thinking It Was Love: Adolescent Dating Violence 431
  21. Whose Failure to Protect? Child Welfare Interventions When Men Abuse Mothers 461
  22. “Change your number”: When Technology Intersects with Coercive Control, Intimate Partner Violence, and Legal Systems 491
  23. Identifying, Assessing, and Counselling Male Intimate Partner Violence Perpetrators and Abused Women 519
  24. The Sombre Side of Care: The Abuse and Neglect of Older People in Canada 553
  25. Contributors 589
  26. Index 599
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