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38 39 40</head> 41 42<body> 43 44<h1>World Corporal Punishment Research</h1> 45 <img width="183" height="77" src="corpun.gif" alt="corpun logo"> <img alt="World Corporal Punishment Research" width="550" height="26" src="wcpr.gif"><br> 46 47<p style="text-align:center; font-family:tahoma,verdana,arial; color:#008040;"><i><b>www.corpun.com</b></i></p> 48 49<h3 style="text-align:center;">Updated 8 August 2026</h3> 50 51<h3 style="text-align:center;">Over 5,000 pages of factual documentation and resources<br> 52on corporal punishment around the world</h3><br> 53 54<h2 style="text-align:center">India 2026</h2> 55 56<p style="text-align:center"><img src="0images/vid1756cxm.jpg" width="298" height="476" border="1" alt="Military trainee receives caning"></p> 57 58<h3 style="text-align:center">Caning of military trainees<br> 59<a href="vidina01.htm">Video clips</a></h3> 60 61<p style="text-align:center">- - - - - - -</p> 62 63<h3 style="text-align:center">| <a href="expl.htm">About this website</a> | <a title="Latest additions to this website" href="whatsnew.htm">What's New</a> | <a title="Search this site" href="#search">Search</a> | <a title="Corporal punishment details by country" href="rules.htm">Country files</a> | <a title="Index of pictures pertaining to CP" href="pix.htm">Pictures</a> | <a title="Thousands of news items from the past about corporal punishment" href="archive.htm">Archive</a> | <a title="Schools that say thay use CP" href="usscr2.htm">School handbooks</a> | <a title="Feature articles about CP" href="#features">Articles</a> | <a title="Hundreds of external links to CP references on other websites" href="#links">Links</a> | <a title="Questions and Answers" href="#faq">Q & A</a> | <a title="Reviews of books about corporal punishment" href="#books">Books</a> |<a title="selection of alphabetical topics" href="atoz1.htm">Topics A to Z</a> |<!-- <a href="vids.htm">Video clips</a> | --></h3> 64 65<blockquote> 66<h3><br><img width="14" height="14" alt="blob" src="573b.gif"> LATEST:</h3> 67 68<h3>- <a href="vids.htm">7 VIDEO CLIPS OF ACTUAL CP:</a></h3> 69 70<p><a href="vidbws01.htm#clip2">Botswana</a>: Junior schoolgirl gets a caning for truancy (2021). <span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif; font-size:26px; color:#C031C7;"><i><b>New!</b></i></span> 71</p> 72 73<p><a href="vidszs01.htm#clip2">Eswatini</a>: Three senior high-school boys caned in class (2022). <span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif; font-size:26px; color:#C031C7;"><i><b>New!</b></i></span> 74</p> 75 76<p><a href="vidgwj01.htm">Guinea-Bissau</a>: Female students whipped in police station for unknown reasons (2020). <span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif; font-size:26px; color:#C031C7;"><i><b>New!</b></i></span> 77</p> 78 79<p><a href="vidinj01.htm">India</a>: Four young men flogged by police for breaking COVID-19 curfew (2020). <span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif; font-size:26px; color:#C031C7;"><i><b>New!</b></i></span> 80</p> 81 82<p><a href="vidina01.htm#clip4">India</a>: A dozen military trainees punished with switches (2022). <span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif; font-size:26px; color:#C031C7;"><i><b>New!</b></i></span> 83</p> 84 85<p><a href="vidina01.htm#clip5">India</a>: Two more military trainees caned before their peers (2026). <sp
85an style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif; font-size:26px; color:#C031C7;"><i><b>New!</b></i></span> 86</p> 87 88<p><a href="vidunidafil1.htm">Unidentified African country</a>: Youth caned for unknown reasons (2020). <span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif; font-size:26px; color:#C031C7;"><i><b>New!</b></i></span> 89</p> 90 91<!-- <br> 92<h3>- <a href="usscr2c.htm">Handbooks of schools that say they use CP</a>, with discussion of interesting provisions</h3> --> 93 94<!-- <h3>- <a href="picpar.htm">Picture Parade</a></h3> --> 95 96<!-- <h3><br>- <a href="archin20.htm">The Archive - 2020</a></h3> 97<p>A few media items added for 2020 from Botswana, Nigeria, Singapore, and the United States.</p> --> 98 99<br> 100 101</blockquote> 102<hr> 103<h2 align="center">MAIN MENU</h2> 104<hr> 105<blockquote><blockquote> 106<br><a id="features"></a> 107 108<h3><img width="14" height="14" alt="Blob" src="573b.gif"> FEATURE ARTICLES: SCHOOL CP</h3> 109 110<p><a href="rtsd.htm">Article analysing recent corporal punishment data for Texas schools (2025)</a><br> 111A 189-page study on the use of the paddle in Texas, and how to research the topic in more detail.</p> 112 113<p><a href="counuss.htm">Corporal punishment in US schools</a> <i>(illustrated)</i><br> 114An overview of American school (and college) paddling in the present and the recent past, with relevant documents, pictures and external links.</p> 115 116<p><a href="cassville.htm">Notes on the return of school corporal punishment in Cassville in 2022 </a> <i>(with video clip)</i><br> 117How a small town in Missouri made international headlines by bringing back the paddle.</p> 118 119<p><a href="counkrs.htm">School caning or paddling in South Korea</a> <i>(illustrated)</i><br> 120A look at this highly successful Asian country where corporal punishment was commonplace until a few years ago.</p> 121 122<p><a href="pampa.htm">Corporal punishment in Texas schools: Why Pampa ISD is bringing back spankings</a> <i>(illustrated)</i><br> 123A case study of one local example of a trend back towards paddling in certain parts of Texas, especially for high-school students: why the school board decided to reintroduce it and how they went about doing it.</p> 124 125<p><a href="kettering.htm">Behave or bend over for the slipper</a> <i>(illustrated)</i><br> 126UK Grammar School life in the 1960s.</p> 127 128<p><a href="counsgs.htm">Caning in Singapore schools</a> <i>(illustrated)</i><br> 129English CP traditions are firmly upheld for present-day schoolboys in Singapore. Detailed article with pictures and links.</p> 130 131<p><a href="purley.htm">Top CP Schools: 1. Purley High School for Boys</a><br> 132Article about a UK state school with a robust caning regime in the 1970s and 1980s.</p> 133 134<p><a href="stjohns.htm">Top CP Schools: 2. The St John's schools of Canada</a> <i>(illustrated) (with video clips)</i><br> 135Three boys' boarding schools (1962-2008) where paddling was the everyday punishment.</p> 136 137<p><a href="counuks.htm">Overview: Corporal punishment in British schools</a> <i>(illustrated)</i><br> 138Details of the cane, strap and "slipper" in UK schools before 1987.</p> 139 140<p><a href="wildmantl.htm">Timeline: Eric A. Wildman</a><br> 141Chronology spanning 60 years 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. With links to over 20 press items and several previously undiscovered pictures, and extracts from two of his publications.</p> 142 143<p><a href="wildman.htm">Eric Wildman: 1950s crusader for corporal punishment</a><br> 144Subtly witty essay from 1956.</p> 145 146<p><a href="solihull.htm">Stretching Forward to Learn</a><br> 147A first-person account of caning at a UK boys' school in the 1960s.</p> 148 149<p><a href="gws.htm">Corporal punishment: the <i>Friends Reunited</i> evidence</a><br> 150What do the entries in <i>Friends Reunited</i> 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.</p> 151 152<p><a href="yancey.htm">Voluntary Corporal Punishment Reduces Suspension Rates</a> by Tim Yancey<br> 153Study of an experiment (2001) at a high school in Georgia, USA, where paddling was reintroduced, for minor infractions, as an option chosen by the student instead of detention or in-school suspension. The program was deemed a success.</p> 154 155<p><a href="scotland.htm">The cane and the tawse in Scottish schools</a><br> 156The implements used to punish Scotland's students in both recent and more distant times, and some case studies. <i>(illustrated)</i></p> 157<br> 158 159<h3><img width="14" height="14" alt="Blob" src="573b.gif"> FEATURE ARTICLES: JUDICIAL/PRISON CP</h3> 160 161<p><a href="counukj.htm">Judicial corporal punishment in Britain</a> <i>(illustrated)</i><br> 162A comprehensive historical overview.</p> 163 164<p><a href="jcpza1.htm">Judicial corporal punishment in South Africa</a><br> 165Illustrated feature article in 12 parts.</p> 166 167<p><a href="manx.htm">Birching in the Isle of Man 1945 to 1976</a> <i>(illustrated) (with 2 video clips)</i><br> 168Overview of the post-war use of judicial CP in this independent British offshore island.</p> 169 170<p><a href="singfeat.htm">Judicial Caning in Singapore, Malaysia and Brunei</a> <i>(illustrated)</i><br> 171Everything you ever wanted to know about the court-ordered canings in these three Commonwealth countries in south-east Asia.</p> 172 173<p><a href="canada.htm">The Canadian Prison Strap</a><br> 174In three parts: official views and opinions, recipients' descriptions, and full details of the two different methods used, <i>illustrated</i> with pictures of the various equipment used and of the strap itself.</p> 175 176<p><a href="cohentl.htm">Timeline: Aaron Cohen</a><br>A New Zealand youth caned in Malaysia: Chronology of the Aaron Cohen saga, with 17 archive press items and 4 photographs.</p> 177<br> 178 179<h3><img width="14" height="14" alt="Blob" src="573b.gif"> FEATURE ARTICLES: MILITARY CP</h3> 180 181<p><a href="counuka.htm">Corporal punishment in the British Army</a> <i>(illustrated)</i><br> 182Official and less official flogging, caning and spanking down to the present era.</p> 183 184<p><a href="kiss1.htm">Kissing the Gunner's Daughter: Part I - 1780 to 1860</a> <i>(illustrated)</i><br> 185Full details of the flogging of young seamen in the UK Royal Navy.</p> 186 187<p><a href="kiss2.htm">Kissing the Gunner's Daughter: Part II - The 1860s Ryder Reforms</a> <i>(illustrated)</i><br> 188The birch replaces the cat for the punishment of Navy boys.</p> 189 190<p><a href="counukn.htm">Corporal punishment in the British Navy</a> <i>(illustrated)</i><br> 191Developments in the 20th century.</p> 192 193<p><a href="counsga.htm">Caning in the Singapore armed forces</a> <i>(illustrated)</i> <br> 194Singapore is one of few countries today where formal CP is an official part of the disciplinary regime in the military.</p> 195<br> 196 197<h3><img width="14" height="14" alt="Blob" src="573b.gif"> FEATURE ARTICLES: REFORMATORY CP</h3> 198 199<p><a href="counukr.htm">Caning, birching and strapping in UK reformatories</a> <br>
200How it used to be in Approved Schools and other British youth institutions: regulations, theory and practice, with links to key documents.</p> 201 202<p><a href="courtlees.htm">The Court Lees Approved School Affair</a><br> 203Overview, 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.</p> 204 205<p><a href="ebert.htm">Injustice at Court Lees</a><br> 206A riposte to the Gibbens conclusions from the staff point of view.</p> 207<br> 208 209<h3><img width="14" height="14" alt="Blob" src="573b.gif"> FEATURE ARTICLES: OTHER</h3> 210 211<p><a href="sell.htm">Spank While you Sell: Corporal punishment imagery in print advertising</a> <i>(illustrated)</i><br> 212Analysis of 15 newspaper and magazine advertisements in which CP is pictured.</p> 213 214<p><a href="sellsupp.htm">Spank While you Sell -- supplementary page 1</a> <i>(illustrated)</i><br> 215An addendum to the above, with 12 further images.</p> 216 217<p><a href="sellsupp2.htm">Spank While you Sell -- supplementary page 2</a> <i>(illustrated) (with video clips)</i><br> 218Five more advertising images and two video clips.</p> 219 220<p><a href="machine.htm">The Spanking Machine: A Resilient Myth in Popular Culture</a> <i>(illustrated)</i><br> 221Jeremy Bentham's utilitarian whipping contraption, as imagined (or in some cases actually built) by 24 different designers.</p> 222<br> 223 224<a id="archive"></a> 225<h3><img width="14" height="14" alt="Blob" src="573b.gif"> THE ARCHIVE</h3> 226 227<p>THE ARCHIVE is an ever-expanding collection of news and media items about corporal punishment. Think of it as an electronic press clippings library, now containing over 6,500 clippings.</p> 228 229<p>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.</p> 230 231<p><a href="archto75.htm">The Archive -- <b>1648</b> to <b>1975</b></a> <i>(993 items)</i></p> 232 233<p><a href="arch7695.htm">The Archive -- <b>1976</b> to <b>1995</b></a> <i>(485 items)</i></p> 234 235<p><a href="archindx.htm">The Archive -- <b>1996</b></a> <i>(188 items)</i></p> 236 237<p><a href="archin97.htm">The Archive -- <b>1997</b></a> <i>(222 items)</i></p> 238 239<p><a href="archin98.htm">The Archive -- <b>1998</b></a> <i>(194 items)</i></p> 240 241<p><a href="archin99.htm">The Archive -- <b>1999</b></a> <i>(387 items)</i><br>
242(You can also view the links to 1999's items for all countries combined as a single date sequence at <a href="newschr99.htm">News Chronology 1999</a>)</p> 243 244<p><a href="archin2k.htm">The Archive -- <b>2000</b></a> <i>(246 items)</i><br> 245(You can also view the links to 2000's items for all countries combined as a single date sequence at <a href="newschr2k.htm">News Chronology 2000</a>)</p> 246 247<p><a href="archin01.htm">The Archive -- <b>2001</b></a> <i>(364 items)</i><br> 248(You can also view the links to 2001's items for all countries combined as a single date sequence at <a href="newschr01.htm">News Chronology 2001</a>)</p> 249 250<p><a href="archin02.htm">The Archive -- <b>2002</b></a> <i>(367 items)</i><br> 251(You can also view the links to 2002's items for all countries combined as a single date sequence at <a href="newschr02.htm">News Chronology 2002</a>)</p> 252 253<p><a href="archin03.htm">The Archive -- <b>2003</b></a> <i>(385 items)</i><br> 254(You can also view the links to 2003's items for all countries combined as a single date sequence at <a href="newschr03.htm">News Chronology 2003</a>)</p> 255 256<p><a href="archin04.htm">The Archive -- <b>2004</b></a> <i>(524 items)</i><br>
257(You can also view the links to 2004's items for all countries combined as a single date sequence at <a href="newschr04.htm">News Chronology 2004</a>)</p> 258 259<p><a href="archin05.htm">The Archive -- <b>2005</b></a> <i>(556 items)</i><br> 260(You can also view the links to 2005's items for all countries combined as a single date sequence at <a href="newschr05.htm">News Chronology 2005</a>)</p> 261 262<p><a href="archin06.htm">The Archive -- <b>2006</b></a> <i>(397 items)</i><br> 263(You can also view the links to 2006's items for all countries combined as a single date sequence at <a href="newschr06.htm">News Chronology 2006</a>)</p> 264 265<p><a href="archin07.htm">The Archive -- <b>2007</b></a> <i>(316 items)</i><br> 266(You can also view the links to 2007's items for all countries combined as a single date sequence at <a href="newschr07.htm">News Chronology 2007</a>)</p> 267 268<p><a href="archin08.htm">The Archive -- <b>2008</b></a> <i>(280 items)</i><br> 269(You can also view the links to 2008's items for all countries combined as a single date sequence at <a href="newschr08.htm">News Chronology 2008</a>)</p> 270 271<p><a href="archin09.htm">The Archive -- <b>2009</b></a> <i>(210 items )</i><br>
272(You can also view the links to 2009's items for all countries combined as a single date sequence at <a href="newschr09.htm">News Chronology 2009</a>)</p> 273 274<p><a href="archin10.htm">The Archive -- <b>2010</b></a> <i>(185 items)</i><br> 275(You can also view the links to 2010's items for all countries combined as a single date sequence at <a href="newschr10.htm">News Chronology 2010</a>)</p> 276 277<p><a href="archin11.htm">The Archive -- <b>2011</b></a> <i>(194 items)</i><br> 278(You can also view the links to 2011's items for all countries combined as a single date sequence at <a href="newschr11.htm">News Chronology 2011</a>)</p> 279 280<p><a href="archin12.htm">The Archive -- <b>2012</b></a> <i>(153 items)</i><br> 281(You can also view the links to 2012's items for all countries combined as a single date sequence at <a href="newschr12.htm">News Chronology 2012</a>)</p> 282 283<p><a href="archin13.htm">The Archive -- <b>2013</b></a> <i>(174 items)</i><br> 284(You can also view the links to 2013's items for all countries combined as a single date sequence at <a href="newschr13.htm">News Chronology 2013</a>)</p> 285 286<p><a href="archin14.htm">The Archive -- <b>2014</b></a> <i>(128 items)</i><br>
287(You can also view the links to 2014's items for all countries combined as a single date sequence at <a href="newschr14.htm">News Chronology 2014</a>)</p> 288 289<p><a href="archin15.htm">The Archive -- <b>2015</b></a> <i>(93 items)</i><br> 290(You can also view the links to 2015's items for all countries combined as a single date sequence at <a href="newschr15.htm">News Chronology 2015</a>)</p> 291 292<p><a href="archin16.htm">The Archive -- <b>2016</b></a> <i>(78 items)</i><br> 293(You can also view the links to 2016's items for all countries combined as a single date sequence at <a href="newschr16.htm">News Chronology 2016</a>)</p> 294 295<p><a href="archin17.htm">The Archive -- <b>2017</b></a> <i>(77 items)</i><br> 296(You can also view the links to 2017's items for all countries combined as a single date sequence at <a href="newschr17.htm">News Chronology 2017</a>)</p> 297 298<p><a href="archin18.htm">The Archive -- <b>2018</b></a> <i>(57 items)</i><br> 299(You can also view the links to 2018's items for all countries combined as a single date sequence at <a href="newschr18.htm">News Chronology 2018</a>)</p> 300 301<p><a href="archin19.htm">The Archive -- <b>2019</b></a> <i>(43 items)</i><br>
302(You can also view the links to 2019's items for all countries combined as a single date sequence at <a href="newschr19.htm">News Chronology 2019</a>)</p> 303 304<br><a id="books"></a><h3><img width="14" height="14" alt="Blob" src="573b.gif"> CORPORAL PUNISHMENT BOOKS</h3> 305 306<blockquote> 307<p><a href="books1.htm"><b>Book reviews</b> page 1</a></p> 308 309<blockquote> 310<p><b>The Canadian Regulation School Strap:</b> How the strap was adopted, dispensed and ultimately banned, and why it is gone forever. Corporal punishment policy, practice, procedure, regulation, and world, judicial and parental CP influences, by Harold A. Hoff</p> 311 312<p><b>The Collector's Guide to the School Strap:</b> Scotland, England, Ireland, Canada, Australia & Others -- <i>Second edition</i>, by Harold A. Hoff</p> 313 314<p><b>Just and Painful:</b> A Case for the Corporal Punishment of Criminals, by Graeme Newman</p> 315 316<p><b>Sons of the Brave:</b> The Story of Boy Soldiers, by A.W. Cockerill</p> 317<br> 318</blockquote> 319 320<p><a href="books2.htm"><b>Book reviews</b> page 2</a></p> 321 322<blockquote> 323<p><b>The English Vice:</b> Beating, Sex and Shame in Victorian Britain and After, by Ian Gibson<br></p> 324 325<p><b>Caning: Educational Ritual,</b> by Joseph A. Mercurio<br> 326<i>(Full text of book available for free download)</i></p> 327<br> 328 329</blockquote> 330<p><a href="books3.htm"><b>Book reviews</b> page 3</a></p> 331 332<blockquote> 333<p><b>When Caning Meets the Eighth Amendment:</b> Whipping Offenders in the United States, by Daniel E. Hall</p> 334 335<p><b>The Caning of Michael Fay:</b> The Inside Story by a Singaporean, by Gopal Baratham <i>(illustrated)</i></p> 336<br></blockquote> 337 338<p><a href="books4.htm"><b>Book reviews</b> page 4</a></p> 339<blockquote><p><b>The History of Corporal Punishment:</b> A Survey of Flagellation in its Historical, Anthropological and Sociological Aspects, by George Ryley Scott <i>(illustrated)</i></p> 340 341<p><b>The Whip and the Rod:</b> An Account of Corporal Punishment among all Nations and for all Purposes, by R.G. Van Yelyr <i>(illustrated)</i></p> 342 343<p><b>Child of the Happy Valley:</b> A Memoir, by Juanita Carberry with Nicola Tyrer</p> <p></p> 344<br> 345 346</blockquote> 347 348<p><a href="books5.htm"><b>Book reviews</b> page 5</a></p><blockquote> 349 350<p><b>Red Hannah:</b> Delaware's Whipping Post, by Robert Graham Caldwell <i>(illustrated)</i></p> 351 352<p><b>The Flogging of Singapore:</b> The Michael Fay Affair, by Asid Latif</p> 353</blockquote> 354<br> 355 356<p><a href="books6.htm"><b>Book reviews</b> page 6</a></p> 357<blockquote> 358 359<p><b>Corporal punishment: Is it effective?</b> An empirical study of school punishment records, by Harold A. Hoff</p> 360 361</blockquote> 362</blockquote> 363<a id="rrmo"></a><br> 364<h3><img width="14" height="14" alt="Blob" src="573b.gif"> COUNTRY FILES, including rules, regulations, laws, official documents, eyewitness accounts, operational procedures</h3> 365 366<p><a href="rules.htm">Those Country files in full</a></p> 367<blockquote> 368 369<p>An overview of the CP situation, past and present, for a large number of countries of the world. There are many external and internal links to detailed corporal punishment information, including legal, procedural or practical aspects, from official documents or from other reliable published reports.</p> 370 371<p>An offshoot of this section is the <a href="usscr2.htm">Present-day online school handbooks</a> 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 1,800 of these handbook links, covering The Bahamas (3), Barbados (1), Ghana (9), Grenada (1), Kenya (1), Malaysia (10), Nigeria (13), Northern Mariana Islands (2), Philippines (3), Singapore (110), South Africa (4), St Lucia (2), Tanzania (3), Turks and Caicos Islands (1), Zambia (2), Zimbabwe (2) and the USA (about 1,600).</p> 372</blockquote><br> 373<a id="search"></a> 374 375<h3><img width="14" height="14" alt="Blob" src="573b.gif"> SEARCH THIS SITE</h3> 376 377<p>If you are looking for photographs and drawings, go to the <a href="pix.htm">picture index</a>.</p> 378 379<p>To find selected key documents on a particular topic, such as <b>birching in schools</b> or <b>female recipients</b>, first try the <a href="atoz1.htm">Topics A to Z</a> pages.</p> 380 381<p>To browse for material on corporal punishment <b>in a particular country</b>, start by looking for that country on the <a href="rules.htm">Country files</a> pages and also in <a href="archive.htm">The Archive</a>.</p> 382 383<p><a href="archive.htm">The Archive</a> is also the place to start if are looking for press coverage on all aspects of CP <b>for a given year or period in history</b>.</p> 384 385<p>Use <b>the search engine below</b> 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 <a href="atoz1.htm">Topics A to Z</a>. Also use the search engine if you want to be sure to find <b>every</b> occurrence of your search term throughout the website.</p> 386</blockquote> 387 388<p align="center"><b>Search</b> <i>www.corpun.com</i>:</p> 389<!-- start of freefind search box html --> 390<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td> 391<form action="https://search.freefind.com/find.html" method="get" accept-charset="utf-8" target="_self">
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429 In which year was there the most CP of teenagers in UK schools?</p> 430 431<p><b> -- [<a href="faq.htm#16">12</a>]</b> I am a little troubled by the reference to Eric Wildman, who, I assume, was a founder of your Organisation, in Ian Gibson's <i>The English Vice</i>, p.60.</p> 432 433<p><b> -- [<a href="faq.htm#15">11</a>]</b> I sent in a news item. Why hasn't it appeared in the latest update?</p> 434 435<p><b> -- [<a href="faq.htm#14">10</a>]</b> How do you decide what to include in the website? For example, does it include ALL available news items about corporal punishment?</p> 436 437<p><b> -- [<a href="faq.htm#13">9</a>]</b> Is there any information on the incidence of crime in areas that have banned corporal punishment in schools, compared to those which haven't?</p> 438 439<p><b> -- [<a href="faq.htm#12">8</a>]</b> Is it true that the UK school cane was applied to the hands more often than to the bottom?</p> 440 441<p><b> -- [<a href="faq.htm#11">7</a>]</b> When and why did the cane replace the birch in England?</p> 442 443<p><b> -- [<a href="faq.htm#10">6</a>]</b> 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?</p> 444 445<p><b> -- [<a href="faq.htm#09">5</a>]</b> 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?</p> 446 447<p><b> -- [<a href="faq.htm#08">4</a>]</b> How did school corporal punishment vanish so fast in the UK? What was the European Union's role?</p> 448 449<p><b> -- [<a href="faq.htm#usstates">3</a>]</b> Which US states still permit school paddling and which have banned it?</p> 450 451<p><b> -- [<a href="faq.htm#04">2</a>]</b> I've heard mention of something called an Eton pop-tanning. What is or was this? (<i>illustrated</i>)</p> 452 453<p><b> -- [<a href="faq.htm#03">1</a>]</b> 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?</p><br> 454</blockquote> 455 456<blockquote><a id="essays"></a> 457 458<h3><img alt="Blob" src="573b.gif" width="14" height="14"> ESSAYS AND OPINIONS</h3> 459 460<p>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 -- not excluding pro-CP perspectives, since arguments <i>against</i> corporal punishment overwhelmingly dominate the debate, on the internet as elsewhere.</p> 461 462<p><b>Corporal punishment in general:</b></p> 463 464<p><a href="benatar.htm">Corporal Punishment</a> by David Benatar, Philosophy Department, University of Cape Town, South Africa<br> 465Dr 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 commonsense would suggest that the reality is a series of shades of grey. Well worth reading.</p> 466 467<p><a href="hatemail.htm">Hate Mail!</a><br>C. Farrell has an exchange of views with a hostile correspondent.</p> 468 469<p><b>School corporal punishment:</b></p> 470 471<p><a href="eulogy.htm">The High School Cane: a Eulogy</a>, 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.</p> 472 473<p><b>Judicial corporal punishment:</b></p> 474 475<p><a href="hawksley.htm">C. Farrell's letter to a British politician, 1982</a> 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.</p> 476 477<p>For further arguments in favour of a return to judicial corporal punishment in the UK, see <a href="ukju9803.htm">A fair price to pay</a>, <i>The Guardian</i>, London, 14 March 1998.</p> 478</blockquote> 479<br> 480 481<a id="contact"></a><blockquote> 482 483<h3><img width="14" height="14" alt="Blob" src="573b.gif"> CONTACT THE EDITOR OF THIS WEBSITE:</h3> 484<p>By E-mail: <b>farrell (AT) corpun (DOT) com</b><br>[In order to defeat automatic spam harvesters, this is not a clickable link. Type it into your E-mail program, replacing (AT) with the usual symbol, (DOT) with a dot, and close up the spaces. TAKE CARE TO TYPE FARRELL CORRECTLY. 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