Antonyms for corporal punishmentcor·po·ral pun·ish·ment

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1. corporal punishmentnoun

   the infliction of physical injury on someone convicted of committing a crime

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1. positive discipline

   Submitted by anonymous on May 6, 2020  

How to use corporal punishment in a sentence?

1. Claudia Cappa:

   Schools are not as safe as they should be, because of bullying, because of corporal punishment by teachers, because of attacks on schools.

2. Ann Budzak-Garza:

   It's being in a state of hyper-alertness and being on guard for what's coming next, one researcher felt there was an educationally-induced post-traumatic stress disorder found in numerous kids who had experienced corporal punishment in schools.

3. Rebecca Ryan:

   There probably is reverse causation, but one of the things that some of the longitudinal research suggests is that when you look at kids over time -- so controlling for baseline rates of misbehavior -- children who are disciplined with corporal punishment versus those who are not, who have the same kinds of behavior problems, show increases in behavior problems over time in a way that children who aren't disciplined that way don't, so yes, there is probably some truth to the idea that kids who are predisposed to misbehavior for whatever reason are more likely to be spanked by parents who use that form of discipline than kids who are less likely to misbehave for whatever reason.

4. Philip Luther:

   The Iranian authorities’ prolific use of corporal punishment, including on children, demonstrates a shocking disregard for basic humanity, they should immediately abolish all forms of such punishment, which in Iran includes amputation and blinding as well as flogging.

5. James McNulty:

   We're very aware of Jeb Bush and his stance on corporal punishment.

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