Should Spanking Children Be Forbidden in the U.S.? Renowned criminologist Christian Pfeiffer from University of Hannover, Germany recently presented the European experience as a of the USU Provost’s Series on Instructional Excellence, and he joined us for AU. We’ll revisit that conversation today.
Dr. Pfeiffer’s research interests include the role of religion and child rearing practices in the production of violence; the role of media in the lives of children and in the perception of crime and criminal policy; media consumption and violence; the implications of corporal punishment in politics; and extrajudicial dispute resolution.
Professor Pfeiffer is a former minister of justice of the German state of Lower Saxony and past-president of the German Juvenile Court Association. He served for 29 years as director of the Criminological Research Institute of Lower Saxony, and is Professor Emeritus of Law & Criminology, University of Hanover, and a frequent contributor to national media. Currently an invited scholar at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in NYC, he campaigns against corporal punishment of children in Germany and the United States.
