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GCSE History · key term
Punishment that deliberately inflicts physical pain or injury, such as whipping or branding.
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Paper 1
A punishment that deliberately inflicts physical pain or injury, such as whipping or mutilation.
Revise: Nature and Types of Punishment in Medieval EnglandCorporal punishment deliberately caused physical pain or injury. Whipping or flogging were examples. Mutilation caused lasting injury: in Anglo-Saxon England, persistent thieves could have a hand cut off.
Distinguish the aim from the method: deterrence and retribution are aims; fines, corporal punishment and capital punishment are methods.
Distinguish capital punishment, which causes death, from corporal punishment, which causes physical pain.
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Paper 1
A punishment that deliberately causes physical pain, such as whipping.
Revise: Punishing offendersWhipping involved striking an offender with a whip to inflict pain. It was a form of corporal punishment, used for less serious offences than those normally punished by execution.