The legality of corporal punishment of children varies by country. Corporal punishment of minor children by parents or adult guardians, which is intended...

Physical or corporal punishment by a parent or other legal guardian is any act causing deliberate physical pain or discomfort to a minor child in response...

School corporal punishment is the deliberate infliction of physical pain as a response to undesired behavior by students. The term corporal punishment derives...

A corporal punishment or a physical punishment is a punishment which is intended to cause physical pain to a person. When it is inflicted on minors, especially...

Judicial corporal punishment is the infliction of corporal punishment as a result of a sentence imposed on an offender by a court of law, including flagellation...

Corporal punishment of minors in the United States, meaning the infliction of physical pain or discomfort by parents or other adult guardians, including...

Corporal punishment, sometimes referred to as "physical punishment" or "physical discipline", has been defined as the use of physical force, no matter...

Campaigns against corporal punishment aim to reduce or eliminate corporal punishment of minors by instigating legal and cultural changes in the areas where...

Legality of corporal punishment may refer to Child corporal punishment laws Judicial corporal punishment This disambiguation page lists articles associated...

Capital punishment in traditional Jewish law has been defined in Codes of Jewish law dating back to medieval times, based on a system of oral laws contained...

Caning is a widely used form of corporal punishment in Singapore. It can be divided into several contexts: judicial, prison, reformatory, military, school...

Capital punishment in Islam is traditionally regulated by the Islamic law (sharīʿa), which derived from the Quran, ḥadīth literature, and sunnah (accounts...

Corporal punishment is banned in the penal and education systems of the Republic of China (Taiwan), but there are no laws banning its use in the home...

Spanking is a form of corporal punishment involving the act of striking, with either the palm of the hand or an implement, the buttocks of a person to...

the law of England, a parent ... may for the purpose of correcting what is evil in the child inflict moderate and reasonable corporal punishment, always...

was considered ineffectual, and cursing a child was a terrible thing. In general, the use of corporal punishment was as a disciplinary action taken to shape...

the market. Child corporal punishment laws Corporal punishment in the home "Spare the quarter-inch plumbing supply line, spoil the child". Salon. 2006-05-25...

death penalty. Corporal punishment refers to punishments in which physical pain is intended to be inflicted upon the transgressor. Punishments may be judged...

measures to protect the child from all forms of physical or mental violence", but it makes no reference to corporal punishment. The committee's interpretation...

reported in various regions. Several cases of violent corporal punishment, child labour, child sexual abuse and physical abuse have been documented of...

Birching is a form of corporal punishment with a birch rod, typically used to strike the recipient's bare buttocks, although occasionally the back and/or...

perpetrated by employers and teachers, was commonplace and widespread, and corporal punishment was customary in many countries, but in the first half of the 19th...

students." As of April 2023, 17 states allow corporal punishment in public schools. See School corporal punishment in the United States for further information...

Caning is used as a form of corporal punishment in Malaysia. It can be divided into at least four contexts: judicial/prison, school, domestic, and sharia/syariah...

Children (Abolition of Defence of Reasonable Punishment) (Wales) Act 2020 Child corporal punishment laws "Scotland becomes first UK country to ban smacking"...

circumcision of boys, child marriage and corporal punishment. Others are conducted because of flawed or discriminatory laws and policies, such as sexual...

most common means of maintaining discipline in schools was corporal punishment. While a child was in school, a teacher was expected to act as a substitute...

plural of Scots taw, a thong of a whip), is an implement used for corporal punishment. It was used for educational discipline, primarily in Scotland, but...

crime punishable by law. Corporal punishment, including amputations and flogging, was officially removed as a legal form of punishment in 2020. Despite this...

circumstances the word flogging is used loosely to include any sort of corporal punishment, including birching and caning. However, in British legal terminology...