ABSTRACT
This chapter proposes the corporal punishment of children can be extended to two other types of corporal punishment: corporal punishment of non-human animals and judicial corporal punishment. Corporal punishment of animals is legally authorized in many countries, widely considered morally acceptable and still commonly engaged in. The corporal punishment of domesticated animals, particularly pets such as dogs, is widespread. An ethical assessment of judicial corporal punishment calls, then, for an analysis that takes account of considerations many of which are different from those which my analysis of corporal punishment of children took into consideration. As things stand, all judicial corporal punishment, like all corporal punishment of children and all corporal punishment of animals, ought to be eschewed. Younger children are considerably more susceptible to physical pain and psychological distress than most criminals. Unlike adults, they lack the psychological resources to process, place in perspective and overcome the anxiety, fear, stress and humiliation connected with their experience of corporal punishment.
