A Very, Very Select List

of Recent Socialization References

(with emphasis on the physical punishment debate)

Baumrind, Diana. The discipline controversy revisited. Family Relations 45(4): 405-414 October 1996

Baumrind, Diana. A blanket injunction against disciplinary use of spanking is not warranted by the data. Pediatrics 98(4):828-831 Oct 1996

Baumrind, Diana. Necessary distinctions. Psychological Inquiry 8(3):176-182

Larzelere, Robert. Implications of the strongest studies for discriminating effective vs counterproductive corporal punishment. Pediatrics 98(4): 824-828 Oct 1996

Straus, Murray A. Beating the Devil Out of Them: Corporal Punishment in American Families. Lexington Books. 1994

Straus, Murray A. Spanking and the making of a violent society. Pediatrics 98(4):837-842 Oct 1996

Straus, Murray A., David B. Sugarman, & Jean Giles-Sims. Spanking by parents and subsequent antisocial behavior of children. Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine 151:761-767 August 1997

Damon, William. (ed) Handbook of Child Psychology. Wiley. 1997 (Four volumes, 3000+ pp. $500)

Grusec, Joan & Leon Kuczynski (eds). Parenting and Children's Internalization of Values: A Handbook of Contemporary Theory. Wiley. 1997

A number of other reports and reviews of research on the physical punishment of children are included in Pediatrics 98(4) Oct 1996

For a comprehensive (some 600 citations, some 60 pages), bibliography on socialization practices, visit Parental Socialization Practices: A Research Bibliography.

R. Pitzer
U of MN Extension
Oct 1997

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