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Just about all of it. In the first place, a generalization covering both British and American schools, no time frame, is doomed, the corporal punishments alleged don't take place in American schools to much extent since they have been banned (public schools anyway). If you want a generalization that Rejali would accept, it would be British and American police departments, because of the "third degree".
You really must read Alice Miller's body of work if you wish to understand her. I would suggest starting with Thou Shalt Not Be Aware which addresses the natural tyranny that adults impose upon children. It may help you to understand by imagining how you treated as a child and then imagining yourself as an adult be treated exactly that same way. People define child abuse too narrowly as something you can be arrested for or have your children taken away from you for.
Second, would either you or Alice Miller, or anyone else who wants to allege that the same behavior goes on, please like to tell me when strappado was practiced in British and American schools, like with names, dates, and individuals on whom it was practiced? How about crushing genitals (i.e. permanent damage)? How about prolonged sensory deprivation and illegally long and unbroken solitary confinement (that would be 30 days or more without a period of sunlight for an hour a day, etc.)? How about heat and cold torture (induced hyper- or hypothermia), or lesions of frostbite, or bombardment with loud noises and light, or gang interrogation of more than 24 hours, or stress positions (until limbs swell), or short shackling, or blows to the body, or waterboarding, or belly slaps, or withholding of medications for life-threatening injuries, or threats of death to next of kin or self, or incommunicado holdings? Those are just an incomplete list of the ones practiced by the Americans.
You are looking for child abuse that mirrors torture. No one is arguing such an exact parallel. For instance some people naively think sexually abused children are likely to become abusers. Not true. Or they think that men who are sexual abusers must have been sexually abused. Also, not true. In fact, there is some evidence that children who witness abuse may grow up to be abusive. You are looking for some sort of exact correlation.
So tell me which school these are practiced at? Do you see the problem? At some point, the distinction isn't a distinction in degree, its a distinction in kind.
Miller has written extensively about harsh parenting and school practices between WWI and WWII and how it affected the behavior of Germans and made them vulnerable to Aldolf Hitler.
Third, as I reiterated several times now, from Rejali, the torturers are, when they commence their work, very, very normal. They are people doing a job. The roots of why they are being asked to do this job are at the societal level, and are the three reasons that Rejali gave.
No. I disagree. All people are vulnerable to the situations which they are in and the demands of the situation. That does not mean that they are "normal." To define them as normal he would have to know them before the fact, have access to information about their childhood that went beyond self-reports and compare them to people with similar childhoods who resisted torture.
You should know that many people abused as children appear perfectly normal to people who do not know them intimately, such as family and close friends.
Fourth, they are also, in the case of the Americans, soldiers in many cases, which means that they are from a class of individuals for whom it isn't correct to assume, as so many academic psychologists do going back to Freud's neurotic upper-class Viennese women, that their most traumatic experiences occur during childhood.
Freud? What does Freud have to do with it? Psychology has advanced a distance since Freud. Freud was right about some things and wrong about others. He was wrong when he revised his cause of hysteria in order to please his contemporaries and establish his reputation. He build his reputation on a lie.
