Domestic CP

-- Australia: "Smack Happy".

Short TV news item (September 2006) on a controversy over whether parental CP ("smacking") should be outlawed in Australia.

-- Canada: TV news item (April 2007) about a local school board that is offering parents lessons in how to spank their children.

A posed reconstruction of a child being spanked is shown over a telephone interview in French with a psychologist who has helped devise the spanking lessons for parents.

-- Canada: TV news item on legal battles over parental CP.

Clip (June 2003) shows parents spanking small children, interviews with a Christian father who spanks, lawyers, and activists, as anti-CP agitators take their case to Canadian Supreme Court.

-- United States: Proposal to ban spanking in Massachusetts.

Three TV news films giving CBS, ABC and Fox takes on a bill in Massachusetts that would outlaw parental corporal punishment in the home. Various parents spanking their bratty toddlers are briefly shown.

-- United States: Spanking controversy.

10-minute news report from Florida about a man who is in trouble for spanking his 8-year-old son with a belt. Includes interview with the man and his lawyer.

-- United States: Free paddles for parents.

Two rival TV news items on Joey Salvati of Pennsylvania, who, in obedience to a message from God, makes paddles and sends them free to parents who wish to discipline their kids.

-- United States: TV news item on controversy over woman who came into classroom and whipped her nephew (Feb 2007).

The clip includes interviews with a mother whose daughter saw the spanking and with a school district spokesman.

-- United States: "Would you whoop your kids?"

Light-hearted interviews on American street with people of differing ethnic backgrounds and views on parental spanking.

Fun/Fraternity/Folklore CP

-- Poland: 18th birthday spanking.

A college boy gets 18 whacks with a belt on the seat of his jeans.

-- United States: "Mikey Getting Paddled".

A jocular birthday paddling in a classroom, date and location unknown. The implement used might be the school's real paddle.

-- United States: Paddling machine.

Self-operated paddling device made out of an exercise bicycle. Part of our revised and expanded feature The Spanking Machine: A Resilient Myth in Popular Culture.

Judicial CP

-- Afghanistan: Woman flogged.

This 10-second video clip gives a fleeting glimpse of an impromptu flogging by the Taliban of a (mostly hidden from view) woman in a Kabul street, 2001.

-- Ecuador: Various offenders (men and women) whipped in public tribal punishment.

-- Guatemala: Several young men whipped on the bare back in a community punishment ceremony.

-- Guatemala: TV news clip shows four youths aged 18-20 receiving a public whipping from their elders on the orders of the local tribal court.

-- India: News item (2007): two youths get unofficial flogging by police in an Indian city street.

-- Indonesia: 2 video clips of public canings in Aceh province.

(1) A man and a woman are each given 7 strokes together in 2007. This gives a much clearer picture of the procedure than previous clips.
(2) An earlier and less clear film from local TV in which a man and a woman are punished.

The page also includes external links to two further (low-quality) video clips from Indonesian TV about the first Sharia canings under the new regime, with English summary of the commentary.

-- Iran: Two video clips of public floggings.

(1) A poor-quality video of a man receiving about 40 lashes as he is held facing a wall.
(2) An offender is caned in public while lying flat on a bench, date unknown.

-- Jersey: 53 years after being birched as a teenage criminal, an old man is interviewed about it. We also see the contraption used, still in storage after lying idle for 40 years.

-- Malaysia: Real JCP session.

A 22-minute film showing several genuine judicial canings in prison. Very graphic - not suitable for squeamish viewers.

-- Malaysia: Another prison caning.

4-minute graphic footage of a different real-life Malaysian judicial caning. This is the full-length version of a 10-stroke caning for which we previously had only an "edited highlights" version.

-- Nigeria: Judicial whippings.

Two 4-minute extracts from a documentary about Sharia law in Zamfara state, Nigeria. A number of court-ordered whippings are shown being administered.

-- Pakistan: 10-second glimpse of part of a public caning, c.1980.

Also an external link to a video clip of what appears to be an illicit spanking in a police station.

-- Singapore: "Rapist gets 28 years jail and 24 strokes".

Video report from the scene of the crime, April 2007.

-- Singapore: Staged reconstruction of a judicial caning in prison, from an official government film.

-- South Africa: An unofficial judicial whipping of alleged teenage rapists by vigilantes, filmed in 1999.

Military CP

-- United Kingdom: Unofficial slippering for an army lad.

A present-day British soldier is "sentenced" by his mates to a pants-down slippering. It is a light-hearted affair, but a real punishment none the less.

-- United Kingdom: Short item from cinema newsreel, 1948.

The clip relates to a supposed 'controversy' about caning for teenage soldiers at army apprentice school. Also another brief clip, evidently from out-takes (filmed for the same item but not used), of army lads discussing the choice between taking a caning and being confined to barracks.

-- United Kingdom: A man describes getting the cane in the 1930s on a naval training ship.

School CP

-- Australia: Cricket legend Shane Warne describes being caned at school in the 1980s.

-- Africa (country unknown): A schoolboy receives "six of the best".

-- China (?): Mass school caning.

Five boys each receive four strokes on the backside in front of their class.

-- Ecuador: Two senior students get strapped on the backside in class.

-- Iraq: Senior school students strapped on the hands

In a classroom somewhere in Iraq, several pupils are made to hold out their hands to be punished by their teacher with what looks like a small rubber strap.

-- Kenya: Mass outdoor punishment of school students.

-- Malaysia: Two brief clips showing real-life school canings.

-- New Zealand: TV news item (2006) about a Christian school defying the legal ban on corporal punishment.

-- New Zealand: TV news item (2007) about another Christian school, which gets round the ban on corporal punishment by having parents come to the school to administer a paddling.

-- Pakistan: Mass schoolyard caning.

Several students are seen being punished at a school in Azad Kashmir, under Pakistani rule.

-- Singapore: Real-life footage of two formal, English-style school canings.

(1) An upper secondary student receives two hard strokes of the cane in front of his class.
(2) An upper secondary boy bends over on stage to be disciplined in front of the whole school.

-- South Korea: "Stick of love" ceremony at a boys' high school.

TV news report (in Korean) shows students presenting their teachers with gifts of punishment canes, sent by their parents to help keep them in line.

-- South Korea: Silent clip from a mobile phone of a schoolboy being whacked in fun.

-- South Korea: Three real-life clips of schoolgirls being caned on their bottoms.

(1) A female high school student receives five strokes of the cane in front of her class.
(2) Two younger girls are given light-hearted taps with a cane.
(3) TV news item (in Korean) includes real-life footage of a mass whacking of schoolgirls across the seat of their skirts. This one is serious and not in fun at all.

-- Taiwan: A student is paddled in front of his class at a junior high school, 2005, captured on a videophone.

-- Taiwan: A student is punished on the hands in class.

-- Thailand: 8 senior boys are caned in front of class at Bangkok Christian College.

-- Thailand: One stroke of the cane.

A caning is seen through a classroom window.

-- Thailand: Two clips of mass classroom punishments.

(1) Half a dozen schoolgirls are caned on their buttocks.
(2) A number of students get the ruler on the hand.

Also an external link to further video material from the same region of the world, including brief glimpses of canings in poor-quality silent clips.

-- United Kingdom: Bring back the cane.

Segment from a daytime TV chat show (March 2007) discussing a survey which found that many parents would like to see corporal punishment reintroduced in schools.

-- United Kingdom: TV Nation (1994).

Michael Moore has a fine old time sending up the Brits and their penchant for corporal punishment. See those School Dinners whackings in full! Comedy at its best!

-- United Kingdom: Lord Lichfield visits his old school, Harrow, and reminisces about canings there.

-- United Kingdom: Brief excerpt from a 1950s TV item about school caning.

-- United Kingdom: Parts 1 and 2 of a 1990s TV item in which a caning headmaster, and three caned boys, are interviewed.

-- United Kingdom: TV news report, 2002: The Court of Appeal rejects a Christian school's claim that the ban on CP is a contravention of human rights.

-- United Kingdom: 25 years without the Scottish school tawse.

BBC TV news report (2007) in which present-day students are shown how the belt was administered, 25 years after it disappeared from Scottish schools.

-- United Kingdom: 1982 TV news item about European Court of Human Rights ruling in the Scottish tawse case.

Clip shows tawse being made, staged shots of tawse in use, report on implications of court judgment for CP in UK schools.

-- United Kingdom: TV news report, 2006: The Scottish school belt (tawse) rests in the museum; a local politician calls for it to be brought back.

-- United States: Proposal to ban CP in Ohio schools.

Two short TV news reports (Dec 2007) on a move by Ohio legislators to outlaw school paddling.

-- United States: Paddling controversy.

News report (Dec 2007) about the paddling of a boy, 11, in a Tennessee middle school. His grandmother had given permission for the punishment, but then complained that the swats were too hard. The district superintendent is interviewed.

-- United States: Real school paddlings caught on camera.

Three clips of real-life American school paddlings under way.

(1) A student receives five moderate licks with the paddle in a Mississippi high school hallway.
(2) In a jocular atmosphere in a Texas high school classroom, a sports coach administers one paddle swat.
(3) A very brief glimpse of a hard paddling being administered at a private Catholic boys' high school in Louisiana.

-- United States: Middle school mass paddling.

TV news report (September 2007) from Tennessee, where parents have complained that a paddling of about a dozen sixth-graders went too far.

-- United States: Unfair punishment of student.

TV news report (September 2007) from Texas about a schoolboy, 12, who was ineptly and unjustly paddled by his football coach, leaving a bruise on his leg.

-- United States: Interview with a Memphis teacher, May 2007, who says that the abolition of corporal punishment has failed.

-- United States: Follow-up to the above.

June 2007: Memphis school board meeting at which concerns are expressed over the consequences of abolishing CP. Two TV news reports, one before and one after the meeting. A school board member who wants paddling to be brought back is interviewed.

-- United States: Memphis, continued.

A further follow-up to the previous two items. TV news report from Memphis school board town hall meeting in July 2007 over continuing controversy about the Blue Ribbon Plan, which abolished CP. Speakers at the meeting are seen calling for the return of the paddle, and a nubile hackette waves a paddle around for the camera.

-- United States: Yet more from Memphis.

TV news report (August 2007) about another Memphis school board town hall meeting. At this one, not a single speaker from the floor agreed with the Blue Ribbon Plan, under which paddling was abolished.

-- United States: Members of the public are interviewed in Fayetteville, North Carolina, April 2007, on their views about corporal punishment in school in light of a bill to abolish paddling in the state.

-- United States: TV news report, 2007: Proposal to reintroduce paddling in Conway, Arkansas.

-- United States: Two TV news reports from North Carolina, 2007.

(1) A six-minute report (Nov 2007) includes an interview with a rural principal who believes the paddle is effective, and still uses it regularly.
(2) Two-minute clip (Jan 2007) gives brief overview of CP situation in North Carolina.

-- United States: TV news anchor Shepard Smith describes getting paddled at his private school in the late 1970s.

-- United States: TV news report (2005) on unsuccessful efforts to get school paddling banned in a district of North Carolina.

-- United States: TV report (June 2007) from Chattanooga, Tennessee.

A private school is closing down. The principal proposes to auction off his paddle.

-- United States: TV report (August 2007) on a controversy over school discipline in Georgia.

A schoolboy's parents refuse to let his school spank him. The mother is interviewed.

-- United States: Two TV news reports on school paddling cases in 2005.

Both stories, one in Texas and one in North Carolina, feature paddled boys and their complaining mothers.

-- United States: Another TV news report (2006) on a mother complaining about school paddling, even though she had given permission for it.

This case is from Arkansas. The principal was arrested but later cleared of any wrongdoing.

-- United States: Yet another TV news report (2006) featuring a mother unhappy about her son's paddling at school, even though she had given permission for it.

This case is from Tennessee. In addition to the mother, the local Director of Schools is interviewed.

-- United States: "Police: Coach ordered corporal punishment of player".

TV news item from 2006 about allegations that a basketball coach at a high school in Virginia (where CP is banned in public schools) made members of the team take turns to spank one of their number.

-- United States: Three TV news reports (2006) about school paddling. Two are about a mass paddling of boys by the football coach at a middle school in Mississippi. The other is a visit to Texas where a school principal has reinstated CP to general approval, and includes a boy and a girl submitting to demonstration paddlings for the camera.