page_title: Corporal punishment
section_title: In popular culture
hierarchical_section_title: Corporal punishment / In popular culture
caption_attribution_description: English: The Flagellation by Piero della Francesca. Source: [1]
context_page_description: Corporal punishment or physical punishment is a punishment intended to cause physical pain to a person. It is most often practised on minors, especially in home and school settings. Common methods include spanking or paddling. It has also historically been used on adults, particularly on prisoners and enslaved people. Other common methods include flagellation.
  Punishment for crime by inflicting pain or injury, including flogging, branding and even mutilation, was practised in most civilizations since ancient times. However, with the growth of humanitarian ideals since the Enlightenment, such punishments were increasingly viewed as inhumane. By the late 20th century, corporal punishment had been eliminated from the legal systems of most developed countries.
  The legality in the twenty-first century of corporal punishment in various settings differs by jurisdiction. Internationally, the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries saw the application of human rights law to the question of corporal punishment in a number of contexts:
context_section_description: Art
   The Flagellation, (c.1455–70), by Piero della Francesca. Christ is lashed while Pontius Pilate looks on.
  The Whipping, (1941), by Horace Pippin. A figure tied to a whipping post is flogged.
  Film and TV
  See: List of films and TV containing corporal punishment scenes.
caption: The Flagellation, by Piero della Francesca.
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