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'''Corporal punishment''' is the infliction of physical pain in response to wrongdoing, typically by methodically striking a particular part of the offender's body with an implement such as a paddle, or with the open hand. Its purpose is to correct, reform and deter the miscreant, and to deter others from similar misconduct.  

'''Corporal punishment''' is the infliction of physical pain in response to wrongdoing, typically by methodically striking a particular part of the offender's body with an implement such as a paddle, or with the open hand. Its purpose is to correct, reform and deter the miscreant, and to deter others from similar misconduct. In the state of Texas it is lawful for a public official to use a four-foot-long board to strike a woman's hand, hip, leg and buttocks with sufficient force to cause bleeding.<ref>Deana Pollard Sacks, (2009). [http://lawreview.law.ucdavis.edu/issues/42-4_Sacks.pdf "State Actors Beating Children: A Call for Judicial Relief".] ''UC Davis Law Review,'' Volume 42, No. 4, page 1167, April 2009.</ref>

[[Spanking]] of children and teens, whether at home or at school, is the most usual kind of corporal punishment. Parents are urged by the [[Bible]] to spank their offspring when they misbehave, for instance in [[Proverbs]] 13:24 (He who withholds the rod hateth his son).

[[Spanking]] of children and teens, whether at home or at school, is the most usual kind of corporal punishment. Parents are urged by the [[Bible]] to spank their offspring when they misbehave, for instance in [[Proverbs]] 13:24 (He who withholds the rod hateth his son).