Corporal punishment

Corporal punishment is the deliberate infliction of pain intended as correction or punishment. Historically speaking most punishments, whether in judicial, domestic or educational settings were corporal in basis. The practice is generally held to differ from torture in that it is applied for disciplinary reasons and is therefore intended to be limited, rather than intended to totally destroy the will of the victim. Severe or prolonged forms of corporal punishment are, however, more or less indistinguishable from torture.

See also

• Child abuse
• Domestic violence
• Emotional abuse
• Judicial corporal punishment
• Keelhauling
• Mortification of the flesh
• School discipline
• Spanking Therapy