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Arkansas Author Offers Analysis Of Corporal Punishment In New Book

Dr. Matthew Pate
Malcolm Glover

Pine Bluff resident Matthew Pate is the author of a new book titled Corporal Punishment Around the World, a text that provides an overview of those practices in various cultures that inflict pain to curb misconduct.

Pate was raised in White Hall, Arkansas and for about a decade he’s had a multifaceted law enforcement career, including a stint as a field agent for the Arkansas Crime Information Center.

“In looking at those places where corporal punishment persists, we can then start to examine the inequities in those societies and the full constellation of social arrangements and the distribution of power,” said Pate. “At the end of the day, [corporal punishment] is all about one group staking claim to the social, legal, moral, and political authority to subjugate, through punishment, any other portion of the population.”

Dr. Matthew Pate is currently writing a book for the University of Arkansas Pressthat will be a complete history of prisons in Arkansas.

Malcolm Glover was a news anchor/ reporter for KUAR News from 2007- 2014.