Corporal punishment
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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 in home and school settings, its methods
John Stubbs has his hand cut off, England, 1579
Birching, Germany, 17th century
Foot whipping an offender, Persia, 1910s
Corporal punishment in a women's prison in the United States (ca. 1890)
Corporal punishment in schools is the deliberate infliction of physical pain as a response to undesired behaviour by students. In schools it typically involves either striking the student on the butto
1839 caricature by George Cruikshank of a school flogging
The welt left on a Malaysian schoolgirl's palm after a stroke of the cane
Excerpt from a caning record of a British school (1970)
L'Exécution de la Punition de Fouet by Jean Baptiste Debret