Penalty

Penalty or penal standing denotes a form of punishment in which the delinquent has to stay standing for a certain period of time at a certain point, usually as motionless as possible, and is used as

Child punishment, which until the 1970s (sometimes even longer) was often practiced in European schools as an " educational measure " as "put in a corner " ( donkey corner ), see also: right to punishment in schools (corporal punishment)

both mental and physical torture, often carried out in the Middle Ages by a pillory , see torture

a type of punishment for those imprisoned in concentration camps during the Nazi era , see gate standing

One type of punishment for prisoners in the GDR : 72 hours of penalty in a closet-like, locked niche, with their hands tied to handcuffs anchored in the masonry (standing room).

a type of punishment for prisoners in the Soviet Union , especially under Stalin , in specially set up dungeons or a narrow niche, as a variant of this, forced kneeling

sexual variety of the BDSM scene in the area of dominance and submission

Individual evidence

↑ Silvia Staub, Andrea Lier: School penalties. Teaching materials: life studies. zebis - portal for teachers. BKZ office Lucerne (Switzerland), October 18, 2006, pp. 9–14 (PDF 15 pp., 1.5 MB).

↑ Antje Doberer-Bey, Angelika Hrubesch: live = read? Literacy and basic education in a multilingual society. Exercise book, year 38, booklet 149/2013, June 10, 2013, Studien-Verlag, Innsbruck, ISBN 978-3-7065-5281-3 . (PDF, 154 p., 665 kB), p. 22.

↑ Hans-Eberhard Zahn : Prison conditions and confession production in the detention centers of the MfS. ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (= Series of publications by the Berlin State Commissioner for the Records of the State Security Service of the former GDR. Volume 5). Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-934085-01-6 . [(PDF download; 229 kB) p. 42. @1@ 2

[1] Silvia Staub, Andrea Lier: School penalties. Teaching materials: life studies. zebis - portal for teachers. BKZ office Lucerne (Switzerland), October 18, 2006, pp. 9–14 (PDF 15 pp., 1.5 MB).

[2] Antje Doberer-Bey, Angelika Hrubesch: live = read? Literacy and basic education in a multilingual society. Exercise book, year 38, booklet 149/2013, June 10, 2013, Studien-Verlag, Innsbruck, ISBN 978-3-7065-5281-3 . (PDF, 154 p., 665 kB), p. 22.