corporal punishment
physical punishment, beatings
Corporal punishment
Corporal punishment is forced
pain intended to change a person's behaviour or to
punish them. Historically speaking, most
punishments, whether in judicial, domestic, or educational settings, were corporal in basis. History has many instances of corporal punishment. In the Western world, corporal punishment has been largely rejected for crimes in favor of other disciplinary methods. Modern judiciaries often favor fines or
incarceration, whilst modern
school discipline generally avoids physical correction altogether.However corporal punishment is still used in many domestic settings, though it has been banned in over seventeen countries. Corporal Punishment in
Canada is restricted to children under the age of 13], and only by parents or guardians, and only such punishment that does not leave marks.
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corporal punishment
Noun
1. the infliction of physical injury on someone convicted of committing a crime
(hypernym) punishment, penalty, penalization, penalisation
(hyponym) beating, thrashing, licking, drubbing, lacing, trouncing, whacking
Corporal punishment
corporal punishment
Synonyms and related words:
bastinado, basting, battery, beating, belting, buffeting, caning, clubbing, cowhiding, cudgeling, drubbing, flagellation, flailing, flogging, fustigation, horsewhipping, lacing, lashing, pistol-whipping, rawhiding, scourging, spanking, strapping, stripes, swingeing, switching, thrashing, trouncing, truncheoning, whipping,
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
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