Corporal punishment

A corporal punishment is a form of Punition where a physical Douleur is inflicted with a person, generally associated with some Humiliation. In the Western countries, it is distinguished from the Torture by the fact that a consent is not sought, that the pain thus caused is supposed not to cause irremediable damage, and that the possible physical injuries must be of weak duration and allow the return to work.

Let us quote in particular like common corporal punishments:

the Smacking, where the buttocks of the person are struck using the hand or with an instrument: the domestic forms are supposed being rather benign and to leave at most only one difficulty of sitting down, but there are also more painful legal forms which leave traces putting of time to grow blurred.

the Scourging, where the back of condemned is struck using a Fouet: such a punishment can be very painful, according to the type of whip and the number of blows. A strong and long scourging can even bring to dead condemned.

the Slap, where a blow is related to the cheek of the person with the hand or a glove: the main aim is then humiliation.

The use of the corporal punishments, and in particular of the smacking, with regard to the children is very disputed. In certain countries, it is authorized in the public schools and is legitimated in reference to cultural traditions justifying of the hierarchical and authoritative forms of education. In others, one considers that it is about a form of ill-treatment being able to cause damage with the children. Such forms of punishments were thus recently prohibited in Sweden for all the company, and with the the United Kingdom, but only in the schools public.

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