Preferred label
Punishment & torture
Alternative labels
Disciplinary action
Torture
Broader term
Activities
Narrower terms
Atrocities
Beating
Branding (Punishment)
Flaying
Marooned
Police brutality
Scalping
Sentences (Criminal procedures)
Tarring & feathering
Related terms
Child discipline
Criminals
Dismemberment
Executions
Exiles
Kicking
Prisoners
Punishment devices
Russian roulette
Stoning
Strangling
Tube feeding
Vigilance committees
Violence
Scope note
Search also under ABUSED WOMEN and ABUSED CHILDREN for punishment & torture of members of these groups. Search also under the subdivision --PUNISHMENT & TORTURE used with names of ethnic, racial, and regional groups, and with classes of persons (Appendix A).
Change note
Formerly TGMI term.