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The UK government states those with parental responsibility for a child have a duty to discipline the child in their charge. [4] Parental rights and responsibilities are enshrined in international law through Article 5 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), to which the UK is a signatory without reservations:
Corporal punishment was practised in Egypt, China, Greece, and Rome in order to maintain judicial and educational discipline. [11] Disfigured Egyptian criminals were exiled to Tjaru and Rhinocorura on the Sinai border, a region whose name meant "cut-off noses." Corporal punishment was prescribed in ancient Israel, but it was limited to 40 ...
The Committee on the Rights of the Child defines corporal punishment as "any punishment in which physical force is used and intended to cause some degree of pain or discomfort, however light". [5] Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, reporting on a worldwide study on violence against children for the Secretary General of the United Nations, writes:
Medieval schoolboy birched on the bare buttocks. Corporal punishment in the context of schools in the late 20th and early 21st centuries has been variously defined as: causing deliberate pain to a child in response to the child's undesired behavior and/or language, [12] "purposeful infliction of bodily pain or discomfort by an official in the educational system upon a student as a penalty for ...
The ban was passed by the Scottish Parliament on 3 October 2019 and came into force on 7 November 2020. [1] [3] At the time of its introduction, Scotland was the only part of the UK to have entirely outlawed all use of corporal punishment on minors [4] but a similar law came into force in Wales in 2022.
This category is itself a subcategory of Physical punishments: all corporal punishments are physical, but not all physical punishments (e.g. capital punishment or amputation) are what is meant by "corporal punishment". Most types of corporal punishment are named after the implement or apparatus used to inflict the punishment. To avoid ...
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 (also called flogging or whipping), forced amputations, caning, bastinado, birching, or strapping.
English common law allowed parents and others who have "lawful control or charge" of a child to use "moderate and reasonable" chastisement or correction. In the 1860 Eastbourne manslaughter case, Alexander Cockburn as Chief Justice ruled: "By 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 ...