Corporal_Punishment

Corporal Punishment Corporal Punishment, in criminology, some manner of physical punishment inflicted by judicial order on the body of an offender. The term generally refers to flogging, branding, or mutilation as punishment for a crime. Historically, corporal punishment has been practiced since ancient times. It was assumed that the injured criminal would be less likely to commit other crimes, but this assumption was never proved, and in fact, one theory holds that severe corporal punishment increases the likelihood of further punishment, corporal, penal, criminal, crime, vocational, united, training, times, theory, term, systems, states, since, severe, replaced, refers, rate, psychological, provide, proved, programs, prisons, practiced, physical, people, part, order, one, offender, never, nations, mutilation, middle, methods, manner