Edited by Richard H.Walters, J.Allencheyne And Robin K.Banks

From the cover: Progressive thought in education and childcare prefers to stress reward rather than punishment. Yet people do punish each other constantly in a multitude of subtle and sometimes not so subtle ways. What then are the occasions and effects of this persistent form of behaviour?

The work collected here explains the role of the concept in psychology and illuminates the cluster of ideas,acts and. emotions - fear, resistance, anxiety, masochism, self-criticism, obedience, socialization- that surrounds acts of punishment.

The editors move from laboratory to life and from theory to application throughout the book. 'This organization has led to a combination of both animal and human research and, when other considerations seemed about equal, to a preference for work at the human level.