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Corporal punishment

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World map of the legal status of parental, school and judicial (including prison) corporal punishment.

Corporal punishment (abbreviated cp or CP) is punishment that consists of the deliberate infliction of physical pain or discomfort. Literally, corporal punishment means "punishment of the body". Most types of corporal punishment involve striking the delinquent.

Corporal punishment is distinguished from psychological punishment (e.g. humiliation), restrictive punishment (e.g. imprisonment), and economic punishment (e.g. fines).

Corporal punishment includes capital punishment which means that the delinquent is killed, but this is not considered here.

[edit] Areas of corporal punishment

Corporal punishment is (or has been) used in many different areas of life:

Judicial corporal punishment - punishment of convicted criminals for crimes
Prison corporal punishment - punishment of prisoners for violating prison rules
Military corporal punishment - punishment of soldiers in the military
School corporal punishment - punishment of children in schools
Corporal punishment in religious institutions - such as monasteries and nunneries
Domestic corporal punishment - punishment of children by their parents or other caretakers. The most common form is hitting a child's buttocks with an open hand or implement, which is called spanking - see spanking of children. Domestic corporal punishment also includes the punishment of an adult in a domestic situation, most traditionally the spanking or beating of a wife by her husband. The more modern form of this is known as domestic discipline.

[edit] Non-beating CP

Corporal punishment in most cases involves beating/slapping/spanking/whipping the delinquent's body with one's hand or a suitable implement. However there are also other methods to stimulate a person's nociceptors, causing physical pain. Some of these are used by adults to punish children, some are used among children themselves (e.g. pulling hair, pinching, boxing), and others are more common in adult/adult BDSM play.

These include: