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- The Archive - 20 new history items from 1817 to 1997
HISTORY HIGHLIGHTS:
1817: United Kingdom: "Big kilted fellows of 17 or 18" flogged at Inverness Academy
1901: United Kingdom: Move to abolish CP in London infants' schools is defeated
1903: Germany: Ships' captains may punish disobedient merchant seamen corporally
1918: United States: Bad boys spanked in New York court
1947: United Kingdom: Army deserters birched for robbery
1953: United Kingdom: RAF canes two teens
1979: Malaysia: Aussie drug offender, pictured, interviewed before caning
1991: United States: Mayor of Washington DC calls for the return of school spanking
1996: United States: New Hampshire legislator proposes bare-bottom paddling for young hoodlums
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THE ARCHIVE is an ever-expanding collection of news and media items about corporal punishment. Think of it as an electronic press cuttings library, now containing over 4,000 cuttings.
Within each year or group of years you choose the country you want to research, and the items are then classified by type of corporal punishment and by month.
- The Archive -- 1648 to 1975 (422 items, 11 of which are
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- The Archive -- 1976 to 1995 (406 items, 6 of which are
- The Archive -- 1996 (184 items, 1 of which is
- The Archive -- 1997 (221 items, 2 of which are
- The Archive -- 1998 (193 items)
- The Archive -- 1999 (385 items)
(You can also view the links to 1999's items for all countries combined as a single date sequence at News Chronology 1999) - The Archive -- 2000 (240 items)
(You can also view the links to 2000's items for all countries combined as a single date sequence at News Chronology 2000) - The Archive -- 2001 (363 items)
(You can also view the links to 2001's items for all countries combined as a single date sequence at News Chronology 2001) - The Archive -- 2002 (366 items)
(You can also view the links to 2002's items for all countries combined as a single date sequence at News Chronology 2002) - The Archive -- 2003 (384 items)
(You can also view the links to 2003's items for all countries combined as a single date sequence at News Chronology 2003) - The Archive -- 2004 (522 items))
(You can also view the links to 2004's items for all countries combined as a single date sequence at News Chronology 2004) - The Archive -- 2005 (551 items)
(You can also view the links to 2005's items for all countries combined as a single date sequence at News Chronology 2005) - The Archive -- 2006 (391 items)
(You can also view the links to 2006's items for all countries combined as a single date sequence at News Chronology 2006) - The Archive -- 2007 (312 items)
(You can also view the links to 2007's items for all countries combined as a single date sequence at News Chronology 2007)
- Overview: Corporal punishment in British schools
Newly uncovered details about the cane and the strap in UK schools before 1987.- Caning, birching and strapping in UK reformatories
How it used to be in Approved Schools and other British youth institutions.- The Spanking Machine: A Resilient Myth in Popular Culture - Revised and expanded
Jeremy Bentham's utilitarian whipping contraption, as imagined (or in some cases actually built) by 24 different designers. (illustrated)- School caning in South Korea
A look at this very successful Asian country where CP is alive and well.- Corporal punishment in US schools (illustrated)
An overview of American school paddling in the present and the recent past, with relevant documents and external links.- Spank While you Sell: Corporal punishment imagery in print advertising (illustrated)
Analysis of 15 newspaper and magazine advertisements in which CP is pictured.- Spank While you Sell -- supplementary page (illustrated)
An addendum to the above, with 12 further images.- Judicial corporal punishment in South Africa
Major illustrated feature article in 12 parts.- Stretching Forward to Learn
A first-person account of caning at a UK boys' school in the 1960s.- Judicial Caning in Singapore, Malaysia and Brunei (illustrated)
Comprehensive survey containing everything you ever wanted to know about the court-ordered canings in these three Commonwealth countries in south-east Asia.- Corporal punishment: the Friends Reunited evidence
What do the entries in Friends Reunited tell us about corporal punishment in UK schools in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s? Includes a "Top Fifty CP Schools" feature based on the number of mentions of CP for each school.- Kissing the Gunner's Daughter: Part I - 1780 to 1860
Full details of the flogging of young seamen in the UK Royal Navy. (illustrated)- Kissing the Gunner's Daughter: Part II - The 1860s Ryder Reforms
The birch replaces the cat for the punishment of Navy boys. (illustrated)- The Canadian Prison Strap
In three parts: official views and opinions, recipients' descriptions, and full details of the two different methods used, illustrated with pictures of the various equipment used and of the strap itself.- Voluntary Corporal Punishment Reduces Suspension Rates by Tim Yancey
Study of an experiment at a high school in Georgia, USA, where paddling was reintroduced, for minor infractions, but purely as an option freely chosen by the student instead of detention or in-school suspension. The program appears to be working.- The cane and the tawse in Scottish schools
The implements used to punish Scotland's students in both recent and more distant times, and some case studies. (illustrated)- Eric Wildman: 1950s crusader for corporal punishment
Subtly witty essay from 1956 on a remarkable character who made headlines with his pro-CP campaigns and appears to have lived on the proceeds of supplying punishment canes to schools and institutions.- The Court Lees Approved School Affair
Overview, with links to numerous press extracts, of the 1967 Gibbens inquiry into excessive canings at this UK boys' reformatory. The inquiry led to its immediate closure. A photograph, reproduced here, of a boy's bruised backside was one of the key pieces of evidence. (illustrated)- Injustice at Court Lees
A riposte to the Gibbens conclusions from the staff point of view.- Timeline: Aaron Cohen
A New Zealand youth caned in Malaysia: Chronology of the Aaron Cohen saga, with 17 archive press items and 4 photographs- Birching in the Isle of Man 1945 to 1976
Overview of the post-war use of judicial corporal punishment in this independent British offshore island. (illustrated)- Top CP Schools: Purley High School for Boys
Article about a UK state school with a robust caning regime in the 1970s and 1980s.- United Kingdom: The birching of adult men for robbery with violence
Research notes by "Diogenes"
- School corporal punishment (UK)
162 link
- School corporal punishment (USA)
272 links
- School corporal punishment (Other countries)
215 links
- Judicial corporal punishment (countries A-R)
103 links
- Judicial corporal punishment (countries S-Z)
172 links
- Domestic (parental) corporal punishment
135 links
- Other corporal punishment (military, prison, reformatory, fraternity, etc.)
229 linksThe external links for school CP, judicial CP and domestic CP are classified by country within each type.
- Country index in full
This is gradually being developed into an overview of the CP situation, past and present, for each country. There are many external and internal links to detailed corporal punishment information, including legal, procedural or practical aspects, from official documents or from reliable published reports.
An offshoot of this section is the Present-day online school handbooks pages, organised alphabetically by country and, for the USA, by State. All these schools announce that they use corporal punishment and give varying amounts of detail. There are now about 910 of these handbook links, covering Anguilla (1), Australia (3), Bermuda (2), Botswana (1), Malaysia (2), Northern Mariana Islands (1), Singapore (42), South Africa (1), South Korea (2), Zimbabwe (2) and the United States (about 860).
If you are looking for photographs and drawings, go to the picture index.
To find selected key documents on a particular topic, such as birching in schools or female recipients or court cases, first try the Topics A to Z pages.
To browse for material on corporal punishment in a particular country, start by looking for that country on the Country files pages and also in The Archive.
The Archive is also the place to start if you want to find press coverage on all aspects of CP for a given year or period in history.
Use the search engine below if you are looking for a "needle in a haystack" such as the name of a town, a state or a person, or some specific aspect of corporal punishment not yet highlighted in Topics A to Z. Also use the search engine if you want to be sure to find every occurrence of your search term throughout the website.
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NOTE: the search engine will only take you to the TOP of the page containing what you are looking for. If it is a large page containing several items, you may then need to use the search function in your own browser ("Find on this page") to find your item on the page.
- [13] In which year was there the most CP of teenagers in UK schools?
- [12] I am a little troubled by the reference to Eric Wildman, who, I assume, was a founder of your Organisation, in Ian Gibson's The English Vice, p.60.
- [11] I sent in a news item. Why hasn't it appeared in the latest update?
- [10] How do you decide what to include in the website? For example, does it include ALL available news items about corporal punishment?
- [9] Is there any information on the incidence of crime in areas that have banned corporal punishment in schools, compared to those which haven't?
- [8] Is it true that the UK school cane was applied to the hands more often than to the bottom?
- [7] When and why did the cane replace the birch in England?
- [6] Why are you so dismissive of research studies showing that the majority of violent criminals were subject to corporal punishment as children and that therefore corporal punishment of children should be avoided?
- [5] My query is about the police administering corporal punishment. Was this considered a normal, everyday part of a policeman's duties? Did he sign up to it, as it were, when he joined the force?
- [4] How did school corporal punishment vanish so fast in the UK? What was the European Union's role?
- [3] Which US states still permit school paddling and which have banned it?
- [2] I've heard mention of something called an Eton pop-tanning. What is or was this? (illustrated)
- [1] I have to write an essay / speak in a debate about corporal punishment. Can you send me a full information pack as soon as possible?
- Just and Painful: A Case for the Corporal Punishment of Criminals, by Graeme Newman
- Sons of the Brave: The Story of Boy Soldiers, by A.W. Cockerill
- The English Vice: Beating, Sex and Shame in Victorian Britain and After, by Ian Gibson
- Caning: Educational Ritual, by Joseph A. Mercurio
- When Caning Meets the Eighth Amendment: Whipping Offenders in the United States, by Daniel E. Hall
- The Caning of Michael Fay: The Inside Story by a Singaporean, by Gopal Baratham (illustrated)
- The History of Corporal Punishment: A Survey of Flagellation in its Historical, Anthropological and Sociological Aspects, by George Ryley Scott (illustrated)
- The Whip and the Rod: An Account of Corporal Punishment among all Nations and for all Purposes, by R.G. Van Yelyr (illustrated)
- Child of the Happy Valley: A Memoir, by Juanita Carberry with Nicola Tyrer
- Red Hannah: Delaware's Whipping Post, by Robert Graham Caldwell (illustrated)
- The Flogging of Singapore: The Michael Fay Affair, by Asid Latif
Although this website contains mainly factual material, expressions of argument and opinion also have their place, provided they are clearly labelled as such. This section will, over time, develop some lines of argument from a variety of sources about different aspects of corporal punishment. The focus is on views not widely expressed on the Web -- within a pro-corporal punishment perspective, since arguments against corporal punishment overwhelmingly dominate the debate, on the internet as elsewhere.
- Corporal punishment in general:
Corporal Punishment by David Benatar, Philosophy Department, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Dr Benatar considers the CP of youngsters from a moral and ethical point of view. He makes several excellent points, tackling in turn each of several common anti-CP assertions -- that it leads to abuse, that it is degrading, that it either stems from and/or causes sexual deviance, that it "teaches the wrong lesson" (this bit is particularly good) -- and finds none of them especially persuasive. And how refreshing to have a distinguished academic point out that the debate is too polarised, with advocates and opponents alike typically adopting absolute black-and-white positions when common sense would suggest that the reality is a series of shades of grey. Well worth reading.
Hate Mail!
C.Farrell has an exchange of views with a hostile correspondent.- School corporal punishment:
The High School Cane: a Eulogy, a thoughtful comment on the cane's usefulness and efficacy in keeping mischievous teenage schoolboys in order, with some reflections on its wider cultural significance. The author writes from personal experience and a lifetime's careful observation.- Judicial corporal punishment:
C. Farrell's letter to a British politician, 1982 suggesting that you cannot sell the idea of judicial corporal punishment by concentrating exclusively on the deterrence argument, and discussing a number of legal and technical points that need to be addressed in any new proposal.
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