Corporal punishment and reporting to child protection authorities: An empirical study of population attitudes in five European countries

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dc.contributor.authorBurns, Kenneth
dc.contributor.authorHellend, Hege Stein
dc.contributor.authorKriž, Katrin
dc.contributor.authorSánchez-Cabezudo, Sagrario Segado
dc.contributor.authorSkivenes, Marit
dc.contributor.authorStrömpl, Judit
dc.contributor.funderEuropean Research Councilen
dc.contributor.funderNorges Forskningsråden
dc.contributor.funderUniversitetet i Bergenen
dc.date.accessioned2020-12-10T13:26:24Z
dc.date.available2020-12-10T13:26:24Z
dc.date.issued2020-12-02
dc.date.updated2020-12-09T10:35:19Z
dc.description.abstractThis study, which draws upon representative survey data of the populations of Austria (n = 1000), Estonia (n = 1069), Ireland (n = 1000), Norway (n = 1002) and Spain (n = 1000), compares population attitudes towards corporal punishment (CP) and whether citizens would report corporal punishment to the child protection authorities. We found significant cross-country differences in attitudes towards CP, but only small differences between countries in attitudes towards reporting it. The most interesting and puzzling finding was the mismatch between attitudes towards CP and attitudes towards reporting it: almost one third of individuals who reject CP would not report it, and a quarter of those accepting CP would report it. We discuss whether the observed mismatches are due to perceptions that the CP we described does not meet a threshold to require state intervention, and whether knowledge about bans of CP and/or moral obligations to report CP has impact. Furthermore, we discuss the role of populations’ confidence in the state and populations’ trust in the ability and competency of the child protection authorities to improve a child’s life.en
dc.description.sponsorshipNorges Forskningsråd (Research Council of Norway under the Independent Projects – Humanities and Social Science program (grant no. 262773)).en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.articleid105749en
dc.identifier.citationBurns, K., Helland, H. S., Križ, K., Sánchez-Cabezudo, S. S., Skivenes, M. and Strömpl, J. (2021) 'Corporal punishment and reporting to child protection authorities: An empirical study of population attitudes in five European countries', Children and Youth Services Review, 120, 105749 (10 pp). doi: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2020.105749en
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.childyouth.2020.105749en
dc.identifier.endpage10en
dc.identifier.issn0190-7409
dc.identifier.journaltitleChildren and Youth Services Reviewen
dc.identifier.startpage1en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/10829
dc.identifier.volume120en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherElsevieren
dc.relation.projectinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020::ERC::ERC-COG/724460/EU/Discretion and the child´s best interests in child protection/DISCRETIONen
dc.relation.urihttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S019074092032171X
dc.rights© 2020 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND licenseen
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/en
dc.subjectCorporal punishmenten
dc.subjectReporting to child protection authoritiesen
dc.subjectConfidenceen
dc.subjectCross-country comparisonen
dc.titleCorporal punishment and reporting to child protection authorities: An empirical study of population attitudes in five European countriesen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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