Human Rights and Corporal Punishment: Australia and Britain, 1970-2000. This project aims to provide a transnational and comparative history of efforts to abolish corporal punishment in Australia and

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Human Rights and Corporal Punishment: Australia and Britain, 1970-2000. This project aims to provide a transnational and comparative history of efforts to abolish corporal punishment in Australia and Britain, and to explain the partial success of these efforts. It expects to generate new knowledge about human rights and children’s rights campaigns based on extensive archival research, including the analysis of recently declassified material. Expected outcomes include an explanation of why abolitionists succeeded in banning the hitting of children in schools but not in the home. Anticipated benefits include a better identification of paths to reform in this space than the idea, common in the public health literature, that scientific studies and human rights reports will ‘trickle down’ into public opinion.. Scheme: Discovery Projects. Field: 4303 - Historical Studies. Lead: Prof Christopher Hilliard