A punishment which involves the infliction of pain on, or harm to the body for some violation of conduct. A fine or imprisonment is not considered to be corporal punishment (in the latter case, although the body is confined, no punishment is inflicted upon the body). The death penalty is the most drastic form of corporal punishment and is also called capital punishment. Spanking, whipping, or bodily mutilation inflicted as punishment are forms of corporal punishment
Physical punishment eg: by hitting.• Schools
the intentional inflicting of pain upon a child because he or she has exhibited unacceptable behavior.
the infliction of physical injury on someone convicted of committing a crime
A form of punishment where bodily pain is inflicted.
The judicial, parental or educators use of violence/smacking/flogging as a valid form of punishment. Debates range over whether parents have right to smack, whether Courts can use physically forms of punishment, and whether teachers should be allowed to use it to maintain discipline. Advocators identify it as an effective form of retributive and deterrent punishment while those who oppose it claim it instils an ethic of violence and violates basic human rights.
To be punished by being hit, for example with a ruler or a cane.
Punishment by physical pain, such as flogging.
The intentional infliction of pain by any means for the purpose of punishment, correction, discipline, instruction or any other reason.
A punishment for some violation of conduct which involves the infliction of pain on, or harm to the body. A fine or imprisonment is not considered to be corporal punishment (in the latter case, although the body is confined, no punishment is inflicted upon the body). The death penalty is the most drastic form of corporal punishment and is also called capital punishment. Some schools still use a strap to punish students. Some countries still punish habitual thieves by cutting off a hand. These are forms of corporal punishment, as is any form of spanking, whipping or bodily mutilation inflicted as punishment.
The use of physical chastisement, such as whipping or electroshock, to punish criminals.
Corporal punishment is the deliberate infliction of pain intended to change a person's behavior or to punish them. Historically speaking, most punishments, whether in judicial, domestic, or educational settings, were corporal in basis.
The Torah describes certain forms of corporal punishment for certain sins and crimes.
Corporal Punishment is an episode in the fourth season of the BBC sitcom Blackadder (Blackadder Goes Forth)