corporal punishment

spanking

Striking the buttocks

• caningStriking with a rod
• whippingRepeated striking blows
• floggingBeating as punishment

paddling · slapping · strapping · birching · belting · lashing · switching · thrashing · beating · smacking

correction

Fixing of mistakes

• consequencesResults of actions taken
• misconductImproper professional behavior
• authorityPower to enforce obedience

obedience · rules · behavior · enforcement · school · classroom · principal · detention · reform · compliance

school

Place of instruction

• prisonConfinement for offenders
• judicialOf courts and judges
• militaryArmed forces collectively

domestic · parental · classroom · detention · reformatory · penal · correctional · religious · madrasa · boarding school

justice

Fair treatment under law

• penaltyPunishment for wrongdoing
• retributionPunishment for wrongdoing
• sanctionApproval or punitive measure

atonement · payback · sentence · judgment · castigation · recompense · penance · reckoning · desert · requital

debate

Formal argument on issues

• ethicsStudy of right conduct
• human rightsInalienable personal freedoms
• abuseCruel or violent treatment

cruelty · morality · opposition · advocacy · reform · child welfare · condemnation · activism · protest · trauma

ban

Official restriction on something

• legalityConformance with law
• prohibitionAuthoritative legal ban
• abolitionFormal discontinuation of practice

regulation · legislation · law · statute · criminal · assault · battery · consent · rights · protection

• Islamic Lawsharia, Sharia, Shariah, Islamic law, fatwa
• abusemistreatment, domestic abuse, elder abuse, maltreatment, cruelty
• controversial practicesabortion, death penalty, euthanasia, torture, human trafficking
• Criminal Penaltiesprison, jail, incarceration, death penalty, life sentence
• Historical Educationgrammar schools, schooling, literacy, pedagogy, schoolmasters
• medieval justicetrial by combat, trial by ordeal, trial by fire, trial by jury, ordeal