Legality of corporal punishment by nation
Corporal punishment or physical punishment is a punishment intended to cause physical pain on a person. It is most often practised on minors, especially in home and school settings. Common methods include cudgelling and flogging. It has also historically been used on adults, particularly on prisoners and enslaved people. Other common methods include flagellation and caning.
Official punishment for crime by inflicting pain or injury, including flogging, branding and even mutilation, was once widespread in the Atteran and Babkhan empires of antiquity. However, with the collapse of Shireroth, the last great empire built upon slavery, such punishments were increasingly viewed as inhumane and inefficient. By the late 17th century AN, corporal punishment had been eliminated from the legal systems of most developed countries.
Summary of legality by nation
Nation | Domestic | Educational | Judicial | Notes |
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Elwynn | A writ of cudgelling may be issued, under Article 8, Section 3, of the Constitution, by an appropriate agency for any act that may be reasonably accomplished through the application of cudgels provided that it is discernibly for the benefit of public order and discipline and is to the benefit of the greater portion of the citizens of the Republic. A valid writ must receive endorsement from the Court of the Prince and be executed within twelve days of issuance. | |||
Jingdao | The use of corporal punishment by parents and teachers is seen as both a symptom of poor authority and an ineffective measurement by itself. It is thought that it does not lead to greater obedience, but only fosters resentment against the family or school, and by extension against the state. In the judicial system corporal punishment is only used to make a death penalty more harsh. This is done to prevent the case where a criminal who knows he will get the death penalty, commit more crimes because he has already received the maximum penalty. Executioners dealing with corporal punishment cases are required to have a background in medicine. | |||
Kalgachia | Although nowadays superseded by primarily psychological forms of torment, following the bourgeoisification of the camps in 187 AL, the use of corporal punishment for trivial infractions of camp discipline was an integral part of the Urchagin, the process of hardening and conditioning which completes the indoctrination of each successive generation of Kalgachi children. | |||
Krasnocoria | Parents have a right to physically punish children. Educational institutions have no right to punish students, as that is the parents' job. Judicial corporal punishment is legal, and is widely spread in re-education camps and jails, especially for more serious offences. | |||
Senya | Corporate punishment is widely seen as inhumane and an ineffective method of punishment. | |||
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