AUSTRALIA

Australia/Prisons - February 1884
How to Flog
Medics recommend more severe floggings

Australia/Judicial - August 1930
Whipping ordered
Youth of 20 birched for indecent assault

Australia/Judicial - October 1954
Armed Thieves Ordered a Flogging
Two men may get the 'cat'
Twelve strokes each for armed robbers

Australia/Judicial - December 1954
Lashing for armed thief
Appeal against 12-stroke whipping is rejected

Australia/Schools - July 1955
Adults say 'No' to caning
But a boy says 'Yes'

Australia/Schools - October 1955
Schoolgirls "spanked"
Mother complains girls were made to bend over and lift tunics for school whacks

Australia/Judicial - January 1956
Fathers To Punish Boys
Parents cane boys in front of detectives
Boy Is Sorry Now: Thrashing By Father After Court Order (illustrated)
16-year-olds are ordered six strokes of the cane by magistrate, pictured

Australia/Judicial - February 1956
To Be Whipped
18-year-old is ordered 10 strokes and three years for rape

Australia/Judicial - March 1956
Father To Punish Son
Punishing will be secret
17-year-old thief to be punished in presence of police sergeant

Australia/Schools - March 1956
Stir Over School Beating (illustrated)
Caning only as last resort
13-year-old boy, pictured, beaten in class

Australia/Judicial - April 1956
Thrashing For Boy
Court orders 10 strokes of cane for 16-year-old after indecent assault of child

Australia/Domestic - May 1956
The cane's the thing
17-year-old purported recipient of paternal caning says it worked

Australia/Judicial - May 1956
Vicious juveniles 'should be caned'
"Old-fashioned Remedy": Boys get the cane
Cane urged for young offenders
Youths whipped (illustrated)
Boys, 15 and 17, punished under supervision of policeman, pictured arriving with cane

Australia/Judicial - February 1957
Adelaide youth birched
15 strokes for 15-year-old in first juvenile birching for many years

Australia/Judicial - November 1957
Two Criminals To Be Whipped
Twelve lashes each with cat-o'-nine-tails

Australia/Schools - June 1959
Only one says he'd strap schoolgirls
Spare the rod?
Girls don't get strap in Victoria but some think they should

Australia/Schools - December 1959
S.A. Attitude on Caning
CP is fine as a last resort in certain cases, says education official

Australia/Schools - August 1962
South Australia view on use of cane
Headmasters explain their c.p. policies

Australia/Schools - November 1966
Teacher mustn't use a cane
Victoria rules are quoted: only strap on hands and only for boys

Australia/Schools - June 1969
Flogged, says boy
Boy refuses to hold out hands, caned on buttocks instead

Australia/Schools - October 1971
Caned boy sues schoolteacher (illustrated)
Student, 15, pictured, had sore and bruised buttocks after punishment for bullying

Australia/Schools - November 1971
Caning of boy was justified, says judge
"Boys who are caned must expect to have pain", court holds

AUSTRIA

Austria/Judicial - February 1852
Austria. (From our own correspondent.)
"Stripes with a rod" sentence for dissidents

CANADA

Canada/Judicial - January 1950
Terms, Straps, Given Burford Bank Robbers
Jail and strapping for four youths

Canada/Prison - July 1952
One Word From Guelph Head Stops Riot Tear Gas Couldn't
Molly-coddling, No Strap, Cause Of Riot - Guards
"Sheer Vandalism" -- Frost
Screams, Groans Are Heard
Men Collapse From Blistering Heat In Prison Yard (illustrated)
Charge 121 Men In Guelph Riots
Strap 50 Riot Ringleaders, Move Them To Nipissing
Mass riot caused by insufficient CP, say staff; 50 ringleaders flogged

Canada/Judicial - January 1956
Order Paddle For 3 Youths In Sex Attack
12 strokes of paddle each after assault on girl

Canada/Judicial - February 1964
10 Years, Paddle Given Two Bandits
10 strokes each for teen bank robbers

Canada/Judicial - August 1964
Court Orders Strapping For Youths
Two robbers "paled visibly" when sentenced to eight strokes each

Canada/Judicial - February 1965
25 years, strap for Levesque
24-year-old given 15 strokes after rape and robbery

Canada/Schools - July 1971
Toronto abolishes the strap
Board overrides Director of Education, teachers' unions

CYPRUS

Cyprus/Judicial - December 1955
The whip is ordered in terror island
Boys whipped in Cyprus
First caning sentence under new emergency laws

With Rod & Gun
"Rioting schoolboys" to be punished with cane, birch or rod

Cyprus/Judicial - January 1956
Mothers weep at caning sentences
Pupils protest to Governor
To be caned on Friday
First canings
Schoolboys sentenced for unlawful assembly under new emergency regulations

Cyprus/Judicial - March 1956
Cypriot youth gets the cane
12 strokes for 16-year-old

Cyprus/Judicial - June 1956
Whipping of youths - Official figures
91 boys caned in seven months

Cyprus/Judicial - July 1956
News from Paphos
Two teen boys get 10 strokes of cane

EGYPT

Egypt/Judicial - January 1955
Food Ramp Flogging
Black marketeer publicly flogged

GERMANY

Germany/Navy - June 1903
The German Mercantile Marine.
Ships' captains may inflict CP on seamen who repeatedly disobey orders

Germany/Schools - September 1968
Eltern wollen Strenge Lehrer [Parents want strict teachers] (illustrated)
Schoolteacher carries on caning, parents support him; picture shows classroom CP in progress

Germany/Schools - July 1970
Der letzte Knüppel hat ausgedient [The last cane has had its day] (illustrated)
Bavaria's last school cane, pictured, is installed in museum; boy, 11, pictured, pretends to be caned with it

GUERNSEY, CHANNEL ISLANDS

Guernsey/Judicial - September 1930
Thefts from and damage to motor-cars
Ten strokes of the birch for 16-year-old

Guernsey/Judicial - July 1968
Eight strokes of the birch
Boy, 16, describes his punishment

GRENADA

Grenada/Prisons - January 1902
Political Notes.
New rules for flogging with cat and birch

GUYANA (formerly BRITISH GUIANA)

Guyana/Judicial - October 1946
Robbery with violence: Justice imposes severe punishment
Seven years and 12 strokes each for two in their 30s

HONG KONG

Hong Kong/Judicial - April 1951
Amah Tied Up And Threatened At Point Of Knife: Six Years For Robber
12 strokes of the cane after ransacking of flat

Hong Kong/Judicial - July 1951
Woman's struggle with thief
27-year-old given 6 months prison, 8 strokes of cane, banished from territory

Seven years for robber -- Lost shoes in attempt to escape
30-year-old gets 12 strokes of cane for botched attack on taxi driver

Hong Kong/Judicial - September 1951
Stole Water Cistern Valves
Electrician, 19, gets 10 strokes of cane

Hong Kong/Judicial - July 1954
Two sailors guilty: Sentence For Robbery Deferred Pending Medical Report
Sailors Sentenced: Three Years, Ten Strokes For Robbery
Teenage British servicemen sentenced to caning after "brutal" attack on innocent passer-by

Gaol and cane for snatcher
18-year-old gets six strokes for taking earring

"Stupid boy" gaoled: Four Years And Cane
12 strokes for man who slashed woman with razor blade

Cane for Hooligan: Magistrate May Award Corporal Punishment
19-year-old's appeal against 12-stroke sentence is dismissed

Hong Kong/Judicial - September 1954
Sailors Win Appeal: Prison Sentences Quashed But Caning To Be Carried Out
"Sentence of corporal punishment will be carried out forthwith" on two 19-year-olds

Hong Kong/Judicial - January 1955
'Stop flogging our call-up boys'
Protest at judicial canings of young British servicemen stationed in Hong Kong and Singapore

INDIA

India/Judicial - September 1871
India
Controversy over flogging of natives

India/Judicial - November 1931
Flogging in Kashmir
Punishment ordered by Maharaja

India/Judicial - February 1932
Corporal Punishment.
Question in Parliament about 14-year-old sentenced to caning

India/Judicial - March 1932
Corporal punishment of boys
Boys flogged for political offences

IRAN (formerly PERSIA)

Iran/Judicial - June 1956
Flogging for over-charging
Greengrocer gets 50 lashes from mobile "cucumber court"

IRELAND

Ireland/Schools - August 1937
"Spanked"
School Punishments
Readers discuss alleged c.p. of senior boarding school girls

Ireland/Judicial - October 1943
Four boys to be whipped -- One of them twice
Court orders "fairly heavy" birching for culprits aged 11 to 13

ISLE OF MAN

Isle of Man/Judicial - April 1948
Boy Burglars' Daring Exploits: Magistrates Decide to Restore the Birch
Six strokes each for three teens

Isle of Man/Judicial - August 1956
Caught the Boat Feeling Sore
Immediate birching for two visiting Liverpool youths who stole

Isle of Man/Judicial - January 1958
Nine Strokes of the Birch: Youth Learns That Crime Does Not Pay
Runaway boy, 15, stole goods from boarding-house

Isle of Man/Judicial - September 1961
Birching isle says the tough way's best
Day-tripper gets 8 strokes and 6 months for drunken brawl

Isle of Man/Judicial - June 1962
Youth Is Birched For Assault
16-year-old cabin steward given six strokes after "gang warfare" punch-up

Isle of Man/Judicial - August 1962
Birch - and the Cane: Liverpool Boys in Court
Two stealing teen boys receive immediate corporal punishment

Isle of Man/Judicial - June 1964
Birched In I.O.M. After Grab Raid, Then Put on Boat
Court orders publication of three Liverpool juvenile robbers' names

Isle of Man/Judicial - July 1965
Birch Them! Sentence on 4 Scots
The lady in my bus queue -- and the birch
Shock for the bold bullies
Britain Should Use the Birch, Says Governor (illustrated)
Four 19-year-olds given 9 strokes each; resulting weals are pictured

Isle of Man/Judicial - July 1966
Holiday brawl: Six of birch for weeping Scot
Youth, 17, sentenced after drunken brawl

Isle of Man/Schools - February 1973
20 boys caned
Canings unfair say parents
Parents of Caned Boys Petition
Canings backed by Board
'Six of the best' for mass misbehaviour on bus

ITALY

Italy/Judicial - June 1851
General Gemeau's panic has been momentarily calmed ...
"Fifty blows of the stick" under Austrian rule

JAMAICA

Jamaica/Judicial - September 1901
Flogging in Jamaica.
Confusion over proposed new JCP laws

JAPAN

Japan/Schools - August 1975
Crazy about Gakureki (illustrated)
Flogging (pictured) at gruelling exam-cramming school

JERSEY, CHANNEL ISLANDS

Jersey/Judicial - September 1931
Boy's alleged theft
Court orders the birch
Out-of-control 13-year-old gets eight strokes

Jersey/Judicial - November 1932
Birch for youthful offender
Eight strokes for 16-year-old after series of thefts

Jersey/Judicial - October 1935
Stolen fruit
Boy delinquents get caned by Centenier Hotton

Jersey/Judicial - June 1936
The Boys and the Lasso: Father Consents to Birching
9 strokes forthwith, 9 more suspended, for 17-year-old American

Jersey/Judicial - August 1936
"An accomplished liar" elects to be birched
"Plausible rogue", 26, gets 12 strokes (of which 6 suspended) instead of jail

Jersey/Judicial - May 1939
Judge's Humane Sentence: No Prison, but the Birch
16-year-old thief and forger given 24 strokes, 12 suspended

Jersey/Judicial - December 1939
Birch For Three Youths
Heavy sentences for teens who took cars

Jersey/Judicial - March 1953
Young thieves to be birched: Headmaster Consulted by Magistrate
Two boys will be birched -- by request
Schoolboys aged 14 and 15 get 12 strokes each for stealing

Jersey/Judicial - May 1954
'Edwardian' Louts Before Police Court
Youth of 18 sentenced to 12 strokes of the birch for inciting others to attack policeman

Jersey/Judicial - March 1955
Birch for Car "Borrower" (with video clip)
Dennis, 16, is birched regardless
Youth gets twelve strokes there and then

Jersey/Judicial - August 1960
Arrived yesterday, Birched this morning, Sailed this afternoon
12 strokes "a sharp lesson" for English ship's crew member, 15

Jersey/Judicial - August 1962
Birch For Youth Who Hit Frenchman
English youth, 18, ordered to receive eight strokes

Twelve strokes of the birch for London youth
19-year-old handbag-snatcher is "dealt with severely"

Jersey/Judicial - August 1964
Parents did not know of birching (illustrated)
15-year-old shows weals on groin after ineptly administered 12-stroke sentence

Jersey/Judicial - November 1969
Jersey ends birching
Channel Island abolishes judicial corporal punishment

Jersey/Judicial - September 1973
Former Jersey doctor condemns birching
Describes procedure he had to witness in 1950s

KENYA

Kenya/Judicial - January 1960
Boys to be caned for gang thefts
Cane for two 15-year-old Europeans: one gets 16 strokes, the other 10

Schoolboys to get 12 strokes for violence
"Bit more severe than headmaster's cane" for boys, 16 and 17

Malaysia/Judicial - January 1956
He Has 'Bad Hands'
Six strokes of rotan for thief, 28

Malaysia/Judicial - April 1956
Cane, jail for 3 who raped widow
Planters ordered to be whipped after gang rape

Wife: 'I prayed and he spared me'
Assize court orders 12 strokes of the rotan for robber

Malaysia/Judicial - November 1956
3 years jail for hatchet youth
22-year-old also gets 10 strokes of the rotan for assault

New Zealand/Judicial - February 1902
Kaitangata Rifles in camp.
12 strokes of the birch for 14-year-old arsonist

New Zealand/Schools - April 1956
"Go and see the Chinese Gentleman"
Reporter visits Christchurch's school cane supplier

Papua New Guinea/Judicial - November 1965
Flogging seen by NSW man
1914 flogging of Germans by Australian troops is recalled

Papua New Guinea/Judicial - March 1966
Public Caning Of 29 Boys
Large crowd watches punishment of "riotous" youths aged 7 to 15

Poland/Schools - November/December 1901
The Prussian Poles.
Polish students caned for refusing religious lessons in German

The Prussian Poles.
Details of 14 students' canings

Russia/Judicial - September 1903
Count Tolstoi and Corporal Punishment.
Flogging of peasants to be abolished

Singapore/Judicial - July 1956
Rotan for attacker
10 strokes for armed robber who tried to rape victim

Attacked girl, cane for 'pirate'
Taxi driver gets 8 strokes of rotan and 3 years in jail

Singapore/Schools - October 1956
A bit of discipline is good for boys
Former Raffles prefect recalls canings on bottoms

Singapore/Domestic - December 1956
'Cops' and 'rioters' clash in Chinatown
Twenty lads "soundly tanned" after dangerous street game

Singapore/Judicial - September 1974
Caning - the most dreaded punishment
Local paper lifts lid on judicial c.p.

Branding the bad hats for life
Director of Prisons describes caning procedure in detail

Brutal Blow
Editorial questions "barbaric medievalism" of caning

Singapore/Judicial - November 1974
Man who carried a knife after quarrel
Six strokes and 9 months' jail for 29-year-old

Singapore/Armed Forces - July 1975
Murder charge soldiers can be court-martialled
New legislation provides for corporal punishment of soldiers

SOUTH AFRICA

South Africa/Judicial - July 1905
The Flogging of Chinamen
Parliamentary fuss about coolies being whipped without court order

South Africa/Judicial - January 1956
Boys are striped for life
Account of juvenile court caning procedure

South Africa/Illicit - May 1956
'Schoolboy' beatings for Springboks training defaulters
Rugby team uses clothes brush for unpunctuality

South Africa/Judicial - April 1959
Caning At Issue In South Africa
But Sentiment is Against Screams of Prisoners, Not the Punishment

South Africa/Judicial - March 1960
Jailed under the Immorality Act
Six strokes for African, 19, after sex with European girl

South Africa/Illicit - August 1961
Alleged caning of African nurses
Eleven student nurses said punished at hospital

South Africa/Judicial - April 1964
Torture men are to be caned
Six strokes each for three white policemen and court clerk

South Africa/Reformatory - March 1972
Caned with their pants down -- while others watched (illustrated)
Boys' home inmates get up to 10 cuts from Salvation Army superintendent, pictured

South Africa/Judicial - August 1973
Dagga: youth gets cuts
Five strokes for drug offender, 19

SRI LANKA (formerly CEYLON)

Sri Lanka/Schools - January 1956
Don't spare rod, says Education Director
Impossible to control students without the cane, he asserts

Sri Lanka/Judicial - March 1956
Lashes for molesting girl steno
Six strokes with rattan and 6 months in jail for railway porter

Sri Lanka/Schools - October 1956
'Punishment in school does not always fit the crime'
'Ruthlessness not only way to success'
Readers, purportedly schoolboys, argue over caning

TANZANIA

Tanzania/Judicial - June 1964
4 years jail for theft
19-year-old also given 24 strokes

Tanzania/Judicial - April 1965
Clerk gets jail, cane for theft of £60
24 strokes for former public servant

Tanzania/Judicial - July 1965
Mkaanga jailed for four years plus 24 strokes
29-year-old former civil servant sentenced for theft and corruption

UGANDA

Uganda/Judicial - December 1960
15 years for gang who attacked man
Two also get 24 lashes each after castrating robbery victim

UNITED KINGDOM

UK/Schools - May 1648
Then and Now
Undergraduate whipped at Cambridge college

UK/Judicial - May/June 1685
[No headline]
Reports of public whippings in London

UK/Domestic - October 1795
Right of a master to give corporal punishment to his servant
Court holds that severe caning of 'obstinate' servant boy was legal

UK/Schools - October 1801
An insurrection manifested itself ...
Boys in rebellion at Westminster School

UK/Judicial - March 1817
Last Friday a woman ... was flogged through the streets of Inverness ...
Report of one of the last female JCP cases in Scotland

To the Editor of the Inverness Journal.
Letterwriter supports abolition of the public flagellation of females

UK/Schools - April 1817
To the Editor of the Inverness Journal.
"Big kilted fellows of 17 or 18" are hoisted on janitor's back to be flogged at the Academy - but what if the janitor is a good-looking young woman?

UK/Judicial - June 1817
Whipping of women.
Move in Parliament to abolish the public whipping of women

UK/Judicial - September 1822
An Account of the Public Flogging
Man whipped at the cart's tail through the streets of Glasgow

UK/Judicial - December 1822
Surrey Sessions
Whipping of females
Girl thief sentenced to whipping; reader points out that this sentence is illegal

UK/Judicial - June 1829
Yesterday morning, at 11 o'clock, ...
Man is publicly whipped for theft in London

UK/Judicial - March 1831
On Friday morning Samuel Creedy and William Harriman were publicly whipped ...
Report of whipping sentence in London

UK/Judicial - January 1851
The visiting justices of the House of Correction ...
Discussion about prison surgeon to supervise juvenile whippings

UK/Judicial - March 1856
Assaults on women and children
Bill moved in Parliament to increase whipping powers; editorial comment

UK/Judicial - October 1866
Flogging garotters
Three robbers punished in jail; official corrects press report

UK/Judicial - January 1867
Flogging garotters in Leeds Gaol
Description of punishment of two robbers

UK/Judicial - April 1878
Flogging in Newgate
Description of punishment of five youths for robbery with violence

UK/Judicial - April 1883
Ignominious punishment for young gentleman
Six stripes with a birch-rod for stabbing

UK/Judicial - March 1886
Boys awarded the birch.
Five lads punished for breaking, entering and stealing

UK/Judicial - April 1886
The Birch for Naughty Boys
Three "respectable-looking" young robbers sentenced to birching; punishment inflicted forthwith

UK/Judicial - May 1886
Criminal assaults.
Boy, 14, gets 15 strokes of the birch

Naughty boys.
Second court birchings for two young thieves

The Criminal Law Amendment Act.
Judge calls for flogging for those who abuse children

UK/Judicial - October 1886
The Application of the Birch
Court orders nine strokes for thief aged 13

UK/Judicial - December 1886
Singular Conduct of a Boy.
Breaking-and-entering saga ends with 12 strokes of the birch for boy, 12

UK/Schools - 1886
Unlimited Stick
"Only head teachers may cane" rule is under attack

UK/Judicial - May 1887
Miscellaneous charges at the Clerkenwell police-court.
Boy, 10, birched for stealing fowls

Robbery by an errand boy.
13-year-old culprit is ordered six strokes with a birch rod

Miscellaneous charges at the Clerkenwell Police-Court
Six-stroke birching for boy, 13, who stole balls from shop

UK/Schools - March 1894
Police
"Nature provides special place for boys to be punished on and it should be used", says judge as he fines out-of-control teacher for assault

UK/Judicial - March 1900
Youthful Offenders Bill.
House of Lords wants magistrates' birching powers extended in England and Wales

Corporal Punishment.
Report gives flogging statistics for England & Wales

UK/Judicial - April 1900
Youthful Offenders
Corporal Punishment
Parliament debates extension of courts' whipping powers

UK/Schools - April 1900
National Union of Teachers.
"Steady decrease" in CP is claimed, but union says it cannot be banished

UK/Prisons - January 1901
Corporal punishment in gaol.
Birmingham Justices want to be able to flog prisoners without Home Secretary's approval

UK/Schools - November 1901
London School Board.
Attempt to outlaw CP in infant schools is rejected

UK/Armed Forces - May 1902
Birching in the Army.
Grenadier Guards boy illicitly birched for smoking and absence without leave

UK/Schools - July 1903
City Education Committee.
Worcester decides to restrict caning to head teachers

UK/Navy - August 1903
The Naval Manoeuvres: Work, Play, and Punishment.
Very rare contemporary eyewitness account of canings of junior seamen

UK/Navy - June 1904
Corporal Punishment In The Navy.
An insider discusses the caning, birching and flogging of sailors

UK/Schools - February 1910
Caning in Public Schools.
Judge upholds school in declining to accept boys whose mother will not have them caned

UK/Judicial - July 1911
The Cat for Despicable Bullies.
34 strokes each for two violent robbers

UK/Judicial - September 1911
Birch for the Boys
Two 12-year olds get six strokes each after "extraordinary story" of evening out with pony and cart

UK/Judicial - August 1917
Bad Boys Birched
Runaway 13-year-olds receive JCP for theft

UK/Judicial - August 1918
Rod and Gum
Four lads birched for stealing

UK/Schools - May 1919
A Schoolgirl's Caning.
Headmistress fined after punishment deemed excessive

UK/Judicial - April 1920
Johnstone Boys and a Humane Killer: 80 Shots Fired
Scottish court orders 10 stripes of the birch for youth

UK/Judicial - September 1929
Youth's assault in shop: Imprisonment and birch
19-year-old gets 12 strokes for "brutal" robbery

UK/Reformatory - March 1930
Power to Cane Boys in Borstal Institution.
Northern Ireland Parliament introduces reformatory c.p. for older teens

UK/Judicial - October 1930
Station Hold-Up: Armed Bandits Sentenced
Birch order for two young brothers

UK/Judicial - October 1931
Birch and Gaol for Bank Bandit
Bank robber, 24, given 18 strokes and 8 months

UK/Judicial - June 1933
Birching of Young Offenders
Two 12-year-olds get two lots of six strokes each

UK/Judicial - January 1936
Leicester Recorder Orders Boy To Be Birched
Ethics of Birching
Is Birching for Boys Out of Date?
Recorder Replies To Critics of Birching
Is the Birch The Cure For Young Offenders?
Spare The Rod?
Not Afraid of Birch, says Sentenced Lad
Misapplied Leniency
Leicester Call For Inquiry Into Birching Sentence On Boy Of 15
Birched At 13
Leicester M.P. And Birching Sentence
Chief Constable Requested to Suspend Carrying Out of Sentence
"Cruel for Boy of 15": Police Do Not Possess a Birch
Mother's Joy At Remission Of Birching Sentence On Leicester Boy
Government caves in to immense fuss over birching sentence on 15-year-old

UK/Navy - November 1936
Boy In Tears at Portland Court-Martial
Boy disillusioned
Two youths get 12 strokes each in last-ever naval birchings

UK/Judicial - February 1937
Four young scamps: Remarkable Police Court charge
Thieves' ringleader given six strokes of the birch

Promise and performance: birch for young scamps
Six strokes each for two more of gang

UK/Judicial - April 1937
Let Beatings Begin at Home, Says an M.P. Who Has Had His Own
Politician 'not sympathetic' to calls to abolish the birch

Bench order the Birch for Nine Boys: Stole Property of a Blind Man
All sentenced to 3 strokes for "very dirty trick"

Birch for boys: Doncaster Magistrates Criticised
Birching only thing "pit village riff-raff" understand, avers leader-writer

Boys Ordered to be Birched
Same bench orders CP for another six young thieves

MP Says Caning In His Youth Did Him Good
Politician supports birch for young delinquents

UK/Judicial - May 1937
M.P. Wants Women in Flogging Inquiry
Chairman of committee on JCP is appointed

UK/Schools - May 1937
Headmaster Says Corporal Punishment is Best
12-year-old "needs jolly good hiding"

UK/Schools - June 1937
Headmaster wins caning appeal
Court upholds school in giving boy, 13, "four on the seat"

UK/Armed Forces - 1937
For corporal punishment
43 years on, letter-writer recalls RAF Wireless School birching

UK/Domestic - March 1939
Girl should be spanked, says judge
His answer to child of 12 wanting a permanent wave

UK/Judicial - November 1943
The Birched Boys (illustrated)
Sentence carried out before parents had chance to appeal; one birched boy is pictured with his parents

The Hereford Inquiry
The Hereford Case
Official report on Juvenile Court birching screw-up

Soldier to be Birched
12 strokes and 12 months after robbery by "utter blackguard", 19

UK/Judicial - December 1943
The strange case of Hereford's birching (illustrated)
Another photo of punished boy; policeman who wielded the birch is also pictured

UK/Judicial - October 1946
Robbery under arms
Soldier, 25, gets 8 years' jail plus 20 strokes of the birch

UK/Judicial - March 1947
Gave Men Lift -- They Left Him In His Pants
Two army deserters get 12 months in jail and six strokes of the birch each for robbery

UK/Judicial - April 1947
Birch for Boy of 13
Juvenile Court orders four strokes for breaking into churches

Labourer who robbed police matron 'deserved birch'
Judge would have ordered birching for 22-year-old had he been fit

UK/Schools - April 1947
His business is simply whacking! (illustrated)
Eric A. Wildman, purveyor of punishment implements, is pictured with canes

UK/Judicial - May 1947
The 'Cat' for London Gunman
Six strokes of cat and 7 years' jail after armed raid on pub

Birch for robbery with violence
21-year-old sentenced to 25 strokes of the birch

UK/Schools - May 1947
Teacher: I loathe the cane
But in the end only the cane works, headmaster tells conference

UK/Domestic - June 1947
A Girl, Aged 19, Is Too Old To Be Whipped -- K.C.
She left home because father beat her

UK/Schools - June 1947
My Cane Stays, Says This Headmaster
Caning "All Wrong", Says Headmistress
He "detests" CP but says it is necessary; but it's absolutely wrong for girls, says his female counterpart

UK/Judicial - July 1947
Father of Birched Boys Wants Inquiry
Elder brother has to witness "extremely severe" punishment

UK/Judicial - August 1947
'Birch My Boy' -- Mother
'No, No, No,' says woman magistrate to suggestion of c.p. for boy who stole from Boys' Brigade

UK/Schools - August 1947
Spanking Story
Interviews with Eric Wildman (pro-CP campaign) and an anti-caning spokeswoman

UK/Judicial - October 1947
Birch, Gaol for Sailor
15 strokes for 23-year-old who attacked elderly woman

UK/Judicial - November 1947
Wide reform of penal code
Second reading
Letters: Judicial powers
Criminal law reform: Progress in treatment of offenders
Govt publishes proposals for abolishing judicial corporal punishment; Parliament debates

UK/Judicial - December 1947
Whipping as penalty: Amendments to new Bill
Power to order flogging: Abolition approved in Committee
Abolition of birching and flogging agreed, except for serious offences against prison discipline

UK/Judicial - March 1948
Judge orders birch for two youths
12 strokes each for two teens who attacked student

UK/Judicial - July 1948
This Brutal Robbery a Case for Flogging
Judge wonders why c.p. about to be abolished

UK/Illicit - September 1948
Hit Choirboys: Vicar fined £20
Trousers-down spanking was "merely horseplay"

UK/Armed forces - October 1948
'Let Us Cane Boys' (illustrated) (with video clip)
"Half a dozen canings a week" at army apprentice school are defended by commandant, pictured

UK/Schools - November 1948
Five Smarting Girls Sang a Hit Song
Headmistress gives schoolgirls public caning, girls go "on strike"

"Free Expression" School Scene (illustrated)
Pupils Cane Caner (illustrated)
Six strokes with a smoky malacca: Schoolboy canes the cane seller (illustrated)
Eric Wildman visits school to lecture on CP but gets a taste of his own medicine; several different pictures show him on floor surrounded by students

I had planned it all, says the head (illustrated)
"Progressive" school headmaster, pictured with Eric A. Wildman and canes, admits he set trap into which Wildman fell

Six of the Best (illustrated)
An American view of the Wildman debacle; fracas at school is pictured

UK/Schools - December 1948
Letters: Don't Spare the Rod
Girl Strikers 'Were Like Amazons'
Aftermath of row over girls' public caning

UK/Judicial - January 1949
The Cat is On the Shelf
Editorial blames "sentimentalist" abolition for crime wave

Birch Bad Boys, says the Vicar
It's the only punishment delinquent youth really fears, he says

UK/Schools - April 1949
Public Schoolboys Vote for Caning and Fagging
69% of students think CP is necessary

UK/Schools - September 1952
Speak up! (illustrated)
Eric A. Wildman visits America, "canes" stenographer

UK/Judicial - November 1952
The Cat & the Birch
An American take on the UK's flogging debate

UK/Army - January 1953
'Caning' colonel is reprimanded
CO on clean-up caned his batman
18-year-old soldier ate meals standing up after unofficial punishment

UK/Judicial - January 1953
Bring police up to strength
Archbishop of York is not against birching in principle

Vote on flogging upsets the magistrates
Referendum among JPs on judicial corporal punishment

Flogging bill details today
Private Member's Bill to bring back judicial corporal punishment

UK/Schools - January 1953
Police seize canes in swoop on offices
Police swoop on birching society's HQ: Detectives search leader's home (illustrated)
Eric Wildman, pictured, campaigner for corporal punishment, falls foul of the authorities; picture of police raid in progress

UK/Judicial - February 1953
Birching Bill rejected: Government's view
Punishment for violence
Parliament rejects proposal for return to judicial corporal punishment

UK/Schools - February 1953
Charges under Obscene Publications Act
Cane-retailer Wildman in trouble for Corpun leaflets

UK/Schools - April 1953
Raiders found 3,000 canes
Eric A. Wildman appears in court on obscenity charge

UK/Schools - May 1953
Wildman guilty of obscene libels
£500 fine for obscene libels
Corpun boss Wildman is "a man with a kink", says his own lawyer

UK/Judicial - June 1953
Give us a good hiding
Letter-writers blame juvenile delinquency on insufficient whacking

UK/Domestic - October 1953
Just give 'em a damn good hiding
Would make for less juvenile delinquency, asserts mayor

UK/Schools - October 1953
Obscene books to be destroyed
Further instalment in the Eric Wildman saga

UK/Armed forces - November 1953
R.A.F. caned 2 boys who broke in
Parents Approved Canings, Says CO
Boys caned at RAF camp -- Court told
Two airmen's teenage sons given "six of the best" by an RAF corporal

Corporal punishment at R.A.F. station
Questions in the House over air force canings

UK/Domestic - April 1954
'A policeman knocked ... and saved me'
Maid, 17, had to 'bend over like a schoolboy' for caning from retired major

UK/Judicial - May 1954
'24,000 reasons for a flogging'
Sub-Postmasters defy their Executive and vote for return of judicial corporal punishment

UK/Prisons - June 1954
6 await verdict in gaol
Will Wandsworth prison mutineers be flogged?

UK/Prisons - July 1954
Prison mutiny men get 'cat'
Two flogged in Wandsworth

Prisoner who hit warder is birched
19-year-old receives six strokes

Only the 'CAT' holds back the brutes, writes Fabian of the Yard
Former top cop describes seeing results of cat-o'-nine-tails

UK/Schools - July 1954
'Flog them' man loses his canes
Another police raid on Eric Wildman's premises

Flo won't sack the 'caning' headmaster
200 innocent boys caned at secondary modern school

UK/Schools - October 1954
Storm over teacher who 'caned whole class'
Young teacher canes 40 nine-year-olds

UK/Schools - November 1954
A teacher's right to cane all the class
Four strokes each for 37 Sec. Mod. boys, all aged 13, after rowdy culprit fails to own up

'Enraged' teacher beat her class (illustrated)
Case of young schoolmistress, pictured, comes to court

UK/Schools - January 1955
Teacher was right the day she caned all 3B (illustrated)
Teacher who caned 40 children wins her appeal

"If 'e's naughty, I fetch 'im one round the ear'ole ..."
David Langdon cartoon

UK/Schools - February 1955
The schoolboy attacked his headmaster
14-year-old, about to be caned, turned violent and then fled

Miss Jeffs can't use cane
Young schoolmistress reprimanded but has a new job

UK/Schools - March 1955
Teacher came off worse in a fight for the cane
Father knocked the teacher's teeth out
Man retaliates after son caned

UK/Illicit - August 1955
Girl "spanked" in bus
Bus conductor takes passenger, 19, over his knee

UK/Schools - December 1955
Marks On Caned Boy Shocked Mother
Teacher fined after whacking boy in front of class

UK/Judicial - February 1956
Bring back the birch, say 4 M.P.s
Violent young criminals should be birched, say politicians

UK/Schools - February 1956
He caned a boy - now wins appeal
Teacher was acting within his authority, judge rules

UK/Schools - November 1960
Caning? It's not cricket, say the Russians at Rugby
Bosh, retorts caning headmaster as visitors inspect top school's punishment room

UK/Domestic - April 1961
The Cane
Parents who chastise could be jailed, says politician

UK/Schools - March 1964
Search for Wellington schoolboy
16-year-old recently beaten for smoking

UK/Judicial - July 1964
Penalties for Young Offenders
Lawyer questions basis for rejecting reintroduction of JCP

UK/Schools - July 1964
Head who spanked girls is fined (illustrated)
Ex-Helston headmaster and suspended senior mistress fined for beating girl pupils
Schoolgirls, 17 and 18, whacked on their bare bottoms; headmaster and senior mistress are pictured

UK/Judicial - August 1964
An Instinct That Shames Us All (section on judicial corporal punishment)
Article strongly condemning corporal punishment for any purpose

UK/Reformatory - August 1964
Head brutally assaulted boy - Court allegation
Approved school absconder, 16, had to count out his eight strokes

UK/Schools - August 1964
An Instinct That Shames Us All (section on school corporal punishment)
Article strongly condemning corporal punishment for any purpose

UK/Navy - June 1965
'He Beat Ratings with Gym Shoe' -- Court told
Naval officer is dismissed ship
Naval lieutenant, 33, reprimanded for walloping junior ratings' bottoms

UK/Judicial - May 1966
Bring back the birch, say Tories
Kirk men attack return of birch plan
Scottish Conservative party votes for JCP but Church of Scotland disagrees

UK/Navy - May 1966
I was spanked, sailor claims
Officer spanked boy: dismissed his ship
Officer took 17-year-old junior seaman over knee, spanked him in front of shipmates

UK/Schools - August 1966
Cleared of assault after caning boy
Headmaster gave three boys two strokes each in front of class

UK/Prisons - November 1966
Maxwell (Birching Award)
Home Secretary explains why he refused to confirm prison birching

UK/Navy - April 1967
Storm over canings for navy boys
69 caned in past year: "part of our tradition", says Admiralty

UK/Illicit - May 1967
Farmer whips boys who fought his fire
He punished the wrong boys, is fined for assault

UK/Reformatory - May 1967
Approved school beatings: The facts
Casebook on the four boys
A sure way to make criminals
Home Office probes approved school canings
Q.C. to probe approved school
The Court Lees affair: Government sets up inquiry into claims of excessive canings

UK/Schools - May 1967
Carry on caning!
Head teachers agree by 498 votes to 2 to keep the cane in schools

UK/Reformatory - August 1967
School to close after caning
'Caning' school is shut by Jenkins
Penalty on school 'too severe'
Unspared rods
Inspectors move in to wind up school
Boys in tears as they leave approved school
Cane school gets 'quick close' order
The Court Lees affair: Caning inquiry reports; government closes school

Court Lees boys seen by solicitors
The Court Lees Affair
Teacher in cane row tells of 'more beatings'
The pride of a boy who took to crime
Court Lees pictures disputed
Puzzle of Court Lees: Why No Public Inquiry?
Court Lees questions by doctor
The Court Lees affair: Controversy rages

UK/Illicit - September 1967
Our Man at St Mark's Whacks 'Em
London church boasts caning vicar

UK/Schools - September 1967
The Cane & the Strap
An American overview of British CP

UK/Reformatory - October 1967
Bishop hits at teacher who told of Court Lees beatings
The Court Lees affair: 'Whistle-blower' attacked in Parliament

UK/Reformatory - January 1968
Head told to leave approved school
Two boys "caned too hard" in island institution

UK/Schools - January 1969
'Caning' teacher cleared
3-stroke whacking was not assault, court rules

UK/Schools - March 1969
Mass canings storm at a school
100 London 13-year-olds get one stroke each on seat of pants

Head fined after boy is injured by cane
"Disobedient and defiant" prep school student aged 7 had bruised backside

UK/Illicit - November 1969
Throw away that bat, m'lord
Monthly paddlings for boys and girls at London youth club

UK/Schools - November 1969
Cane for 15 boys who marched with teachers
Painful visit to head's study for London fifth-formers who supported strike

UK/Schools - March 1971
Caned boy knocks out headmaster
West-country 12-year-old, whacked for throwing paper darts, punches head teacher on jaw

UK/Schools - November 1971
London children spared the rod
ILEA proposes to outlaw CP for primary school pupils

Heads may defy ban on caning
Teachers' union reacts angrily to proposed ILEA primary CP ban

UK/Schools - May 1972
Demo schoolkids stone police van
Law nabs rebel Ginger as kids' lib goes on the march
London school students demonstrate against caning and detention

School probe ordered over 'mass caning' row
30 Midlands boys get three whacks each

UK/Schools - September 1972
Campaign opens to abolish the cane in schools
The high cost of cutting out the cane
STOPP makes its debut; new abolitionist book reviewed

UK/Schools - October 1973
Beating their privileged bottoms
Newspaper surveys CP situation at seven top schools

UNITED STATES

US/Reformatories - August 1877
Reform School Management.
Punishment regulations agreed for the Massachusetts Institution at Westborough

US/Schools - March 1894
Debate on Corporal Punishment.
The rattan is banned in schools in Newark, New Jersey

US/Prisons - April 1894
In Defense of Mr Brockway
Controversy over prisoners paddled with strap in New York

US/Judicial - January 1895
To Whip Wife Beaters
CP proposal in New York State

US/Judicial - February 1895
The Whipping-post Bill.
New York State JCP proposal in committee

US/Judicial - February 1901
Five Men Whipped by Sheriff
JCP inflicted in Delaware

US/Judicial - September 1901
Pilloried in Delaware
15 convicts flogged; "heaviest witnessed for twenty years"

US/Schools - May 1903
Corporal Punishment In Schools.
Letter-writer calls for its "return"

US/Judicial - June 1910
Forced to Whip her Son.
Boy, 15, is whipped at New York Children's Court

US/Domestic - June 1914
Scientific Spanking.
Suburban mothers work out a scale of corporal punishment

US/Judicial - July 1918
Spank Culprits In Court.
New York juvenile judge has four boys spanked for stealing a bicycle

US/Judicial - September 1921
Missouri Judge Uses Shoe To Spank Truant Schoolboys
Four delinquents punished in Juvenile Court

US/Judicial - March 1925
'Woodshed Walloping' Given To Four Boy Delinquents
Old-fashioned spankings in two separate courts on same day

US/Judicial - July 1927
Judge Ready to Show Father How to 'Lick a Bad Boy Good'
NJ court advises "thick and heavy licking" for disobedient son

US/Schools - October 1930
Thrashing in Missouri
230 whippings reported in Kansas City schools

US/Judicial - April 1931
Four Boy Thieves Lashed
Church pastor administers whipping in WA juvenile court

US/Judicial - February 1932
Jersey Judge Flogs 3 Schoolboys in Court
Police belt used on youths as mothers watch

US/Schools - April 1936
Unspared Rods
CP-using teachers upheld, but a CA district prohibits it

US/Judicial - June 1936
17 Boy Vandals 'Licked' By Parents as Penalty
Mayor gets Pennsylvania parents to wield the belt

US/Judicial - July 1936
Use Rubber Hose to Whip Youths for $10 Robbery
Judge agrees to relatives' whipping proposal

Boys Lashed in Courtroom for Waywardness (illustrated)
Flogging of three youths is pictured in progress

US/Judicial - August 1937
Schoolchildren Whipped In Public
Ohio village marshal straps miscreants, claims delinquency down

US/Judicial - July 1940
Spanking in the news
Judge lets man off with whipping from wife

US/Schools - January 1949
Trouble in Twinsburg
Controversy over a paddling school superintendent in Ohio

US/Prisons - July 1951
Understandable language (illustrated)
Colorado prison governor gives flogging demonstration

US/Schools - October 1951
S.F. Teacher Reprimanded For 'Paddling'
Mother complains 13-year-old paddled for tardiness; c.p. only for extreme cases, says Board of Education

US/Domestic - January 1955
Father's Words Came True
Dislocates his shoulder while slippering son

US/Reformatory - January 1956
Primitive Weapon? (illustrated)
No, it's the official leather strap at Ohio reformatory

US/Schools - February 1958
The Firm One
Spare the Rod?
Judge throws out case against young teacher who paddled 4th-grader; readers respond

US/Schools - February 1959
Parents Rebuffed in School Discipline
Protest over a principal's paddling (illustrated)
Seven angry parents (illustrated)
20 senior boys (5 pictured) in Tennessee mass paddling row

US/Schools - March 1960
Teacher Swings a Mean Paddle (illustrated)
30 boys whacked by Pennsylvania high school teacher, pictured

US/Schools - March 1962
Punishment by Teacher Questioned
California parents complain of paddle lines for PE boys

US/Judicial - July 1962
Spanking New Idea in Indiana court
Beer-Drinking Youths Given Spanking By Police
Boy Rowdies Start Beach Cleanup (illustrated)
Ridicule as a Weapon Against Rowdy Youth
Whiting Doesn't Spare the Rod (illustrated)
Courtroom public spankings for three teens, pictured

US/Judicial - September 1962
They Call Me The Spanking Judge
Indiana judge on the background to his courtroom spanking orders

US/Judicial - April 1963
"Belt Him", Said the Judge
19-year-old gets pants-down whacks from father in Indiana court

US/Judicial - June 1963
Local Veterinarian Treating Puppy
He Sets Fire to Pup; Gets 20 Lashes
Court orders twenty lashes (illustrated)
Employer of Dog Burner Says Youth Still Has a Job
Burned Pup May Make It, Says Veterinarian
Spunky Is "Better Than Expected"
Indiana judge orders strapping for youth, 20, pictured

US/Judicial - September 1963
Parents Whip 5 Youths At Judge's Suggestion
Boys aged 15 to 18 won't be sitting down for a while, says police witness

Won't Spare the Strap (illustrated)
VA Juvenile Judge, pictured, sends teenage boys to figurative woodshed for old-fashioned strapping

US/Judicial - February 1964
Bill Asks Flogging Of Kid Punks
Public corporal punishment proposed in Michigan

Will Oppose Punishment By Whipping
Michigan Attorney-General rejects JCP proposal

Flogging Bill's Sponsor Thinks Public Favors It
Michigan whipping proposal attracts much praise, some opposition

US/Judicial - March 1964
Bill On Whippings Is 'Beaten To Death'
Michigan House kills JCP idea

US/Prisons - February 1967
Down on the Farm
Floggings with strap revealed at Arkansas prison

US/Judicial - March 1967
Bill Would Give Policemen Right To Spank Youths
Illinois bill calls for instant JCP for errant teenagers

Now, 'stop and spank'
Editorialist doubts practicability of "police CP" plan

US/Judicial - December 1968
Youth Takes His 20 Whacks to Avoid Prison Term (illustrated)
Schoolboy, 16, pictured, receives whipping on orders of Oklahoma judge, pictured

US/Domestic - February 1974
Boys' fantasy turns to shock (illustrated)
Runaway brothers, pictured, return home to spankings

US/Schools - November 1975
The Updated Hickory Stick (illustrated)
Paddles, pictured, thrive in US classrooms; statistics quoted

US/Schools - December 1975
Segregated Academies (illustrated)
Paddlings at Tennessee Baptist high school; several students pictured

ZAMBIA (formerly NORTHERN RHODESIA)

Zambia/Schools - March 1960
Rod spared, so the boy spoiled
Reader laments indiscipline in schools due to insufficient caning

Zambia/Judicial - April 1960
10 strokes of cane
Schoolboy "hooligan", 16, threw stones at cars

Zambia/Judicial - May 1960
Sentence is increased
22-year-old now gets 12 strokes of cane in addition to doubled jail term

Cane for stone-thrower
African, 17, ordered to receive 11 strokes for stoning car

Rioters go to jail
Prison for the adults while a juvenile gets six strokes of the cane

African gets 12 strokes
Magistrate orders caning for 15-year-old stone-thrower

Stern warnings by N.R. magistrates as five Africans are jailed
Another juvenile caned (10 strokes) for political rioting

Mobile police stand by as 18 Africans are convicted
Heavy canings for two teen boys

Zambia/Judicial - June 1960
Prison, cane for cycle thefts
Nine strokes for European boy, 16

Cane for Boy
Ten strokes for 18-year-old forger

Zambia/Judicial - September 1961
Kaunda Men Birched [sic]
18 cane strokes for five party officials

ZIMBABWE (formerly SOUTHERN RHODESIA)

Zimbabwe/Judicial - April 1960
'Witch' forced to strip, died after 297 blows, High Court is told
Youth and man get six cuts with cane plus jail

Woman's attacker jailed
Four years plus six cuts for African who assaulted former employer

Zimbabwe/Judicial - May 1960
African waiter jailed, caned for £3,300 theft from shop safe
High Court gives him 8 cuts, 10 years

12 years for rape attempt
African servant also gets 8 cuts with cane

Zimbabwe/Judicial - June 1960
Indecency: 3½ years for farmer
And eight cuts with cane for 20-year-old

Will-o'-the-wisp driver appears in Court
17-year-old stole car, drove it recklessly, gets 6 cuts and reformatory term

Zimbabwe/Judicial - July 1971
Caning Row Hits Talks In Rhodesia
Hundreds of schoolboys caned by magistrate's court

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