Recollections of a Spanked Schoolboy

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United States: PBS TV interview (2011) (6 minutes) with Peter Moskos, who discusses his book advocating flogging as an optional replacement for imprisonment in certain cases. Singapore: Real-life footage of four formal, English-style canings over bending schoolboys' trousers. Singapore, parental punishment cane (incorrectly used to illustrate an article about school caning), 2004

South Africa: unidentified pictures of illegal punishment with plastic ruler (possibly posed but might be real), 2002 TV crew visits a school district in North Carolina with the most paddlings in the state, but also one of the lowest levels of violent incidents. Iran (known at the time as Persia): caning the soles of the feet (falaka or bastinado), date unknown USA: Martin, James, police chief in Ohio who ran juvenile diversion program involving paddlings, 2004 Singapore: Suparman Adam, secondary school principal, turned school round with more vigorous enforcement of caning, 2002

United States: a spanking for young John, watched by sister and big brother, old jocular posed picture Wh at I come down hard on is where it seems the entire point of attending is to get a spanking and most of the time is taken up with that rather in British terms being a re-run of a pre 1987 class where you would only if you break clear and usually serious rules while actually studying to a syllabus with tests. United States: juvenile delinquent being spanked by police on instructions of Mayor, New Jersey, 1920 Thomas, Louis, 12, paddled at US blind school, pictured at hearing with superintendent who defended the punishment, 1954 United Kingdom: artist's impression, not necessarily authentic, of a student being birched in front of the school in a traditional private (so-called "public") boys' school, from a rather unreliable book first published in 1941

United States: Two TV news reports from June 2010 about an attempt to reintroduce school paddling in Memphis, Tennessee.United States: A follow-up report (Dec 2008) on the above. Two coaches are fired for illegal paddling in Chicago schools. United Kingdom: artist's impression of flogging of adult naval rating with a cat-o'-nine-tails on board ship, c.1850