infliction of corporal punishment

Chastisement is the infliction of corporal punishment.

The respondent contended that it was the infliction of corporal punishment, not its prohibition, which infringed constitutional rights.

Authorities in Britain and some other countries introduced more detailed rules for the infliction of corporal punishment in government institutions such as schools, prisons and reformatories.

Judicial corporal punishment (JCP) refers to the infliction of corporal punishment as a result of a sentence by a court of law.

The last vestige of corporal punishment was eradicated by repealing Section 18 of the Prison Act 1952, which had allowed the infliction of corporal punishment in prison service establishments.

This view of torture goes back to R. v. Smith, in which Justice Lamer said that "some punishments or treatments will always be grossly disproportionate and will always outrage our standards of decency: for example, the infliction of corporal punishment."