Diggs is facing criminal charges of felony strangulation or suffocation after a December incident where police say he ...

Until the late 1980s, it was common for students to be spanked when they misbehaved in school. This controversial method of discipline is known as corporal punishment. Corporal punishment is when a ...

After decades of debate, all local Kentucky school boards have now approved a policy banning corporal punishment. Jennifer Ginn, spokesperson for the Kentucky Department of Education, confirmed the ...

After one Missouri school district brought back corporal punishment, some parents are opting in on the new policy as a number of students protest. Dakota Russell, 35, has two daughters, ages 8 and 6, ...

Behavioral psychology says that punishment is an ineffective motivational tool, because its effects are only temporary. While punishment may suppress undesirable behavior temporarily, it fails to ...

About 2000 men, women, and teenagers currently wait on America's "death row." Their time grows shorter as federal and state courts increasingly ratify death penalty laws, allowing executions to ...

ALBANY — A bill to ban corporal punishment in all schools statewide became law this week with a signature from Gov. Kathy Hochul. The new law prohibits teachers, administrators, officers, employees or ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A teen girl who received highlights as a birthday gift from her mother was punished by her father, who gave her an extremely short ...

Americans tend to associate “crime prevention” with Democrats and “accountability for criminals” with Republicans. Democrats want government to invest in crime prevention because they’re worried we ...