NOUN
- the infliction of physical injury on someone convicted of committing a crime
How To Use corporal punishment In A Sentence
- In ways often too subtle to be conscious but sometimes overt, I believe, blacks remain devalued in American schools, where, for example, a recent national survey shows that through high school they are still more than twice as likely as white children to receive corporal punishment, be suspended from school, or be labeled mentally retarded. Race and the Schooling of Black Americans
- Do you believe in spanking or any other form of corporal punishment? Doug Peine - An interview with author
- When these cultural and social divides are discussed, the focus can often turn to corporal punishment. Times, Sunday Times
- Similarly, unlike many of their continental European neighbours, the English clung to corporal punishment as a penal sanction until well into the twentieth century.
- It is unlawful for a teacher to inflict corporal punishment on pupils.
- Corporal punishment is an outrage. Times, Sunday Times
- Corporal punishment and physical hazing of American soldiers was still permitted, including use of the stockade.
- A study of the effects of corporal punishment in one Caribbean locale found a modest, direct relationship between physical punishment and psychological adjustment.
- They often come from cultures where answering back is unheard of and corporal punishment the norm and so they will be taught the differences in etiquette and teaching practices here.
- In this, Ken played a drama instructor caught up in the then current controversy over corporal punishment.
