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Think of it as an electronic press clippings library, now containing over 6,500 clippings.

Within each year or group of years you choose the country you want to research, and the items are then classified by type of corporal punishment and by month.

The Archive -- 1648 to 1975(993 items)

The Archive -- 1976 to 1995(485 items)

The Archive -- 1996(188 items)

The Archive -- 1997(222 items)

The Archive -- 1998(194 items)

The Archive -- 1999(387 items)
(You can also view the links to 1999's items for all countries combined as a single date sequence at News Chronology 1999)

The Archive -- 2000(246 items)
(You can also view the links to 2000's items for all countries combined as a single date sequence at News Chronology 2000)

The Archive -- 2001(364 items)
(You can also view the links to 2001's items for all countries combined as a single date sequence at News Chronology 2001)

The Archive -- 2002(367 items)
(You can also view the links to 2002's items for all countries combined as a single date sequence at News Chronology 2002)

The Archive -- 2003(385 items)
(You can also view the links to 2003's items for all countries combined as a single date sequence at News Chronology 2003)

The Archive -- 2004(524 items)
(You can also view the links to 2004's items for all countries combined as a single date sequence at News Chronology 2004)

The Archive -- 2005(556 items)
(You can also view the links to 2005's items for all countries combined as a single date sequence at News Chronology 2005)

The Archive -- 2006(397 items)
(You can also view the links to 2006's items for all countries combined as a single date sequence at News Chronology 2006)

The Archive -- 2007(316 items)
(You can also view the links to 2007's items for all countries combined as a single date sequence at News Chronology 2007)

The Archive -- 2008(280 items)
(You can also view the links to 2008's items for all countries combined as a single date sequence at News Chronology 2008)

The Archive -- 2009(210 items )
(You can also view the links to 2009's items for all countries combined as a single date sequence at News Chronology 2009)

The Archive -- 2010(185 items)
(You can also view the links to 2010's items for all countries combined as a single date sequence at News Chronology 2010)

The Archive -- 2011(194 items)
(You can also view the links to 2011's items for all countries combined as a single date sequence at News Chronology 2011)

The Archive -- 2012(153 items)
(You can also view the links to 2012's items for all countries combined as a single date sequence at News Chronology 2012)

The Archive -- 2013(174 items)
(You can also view the links to 2013's items for all countries combined as a single date sequence at News Chronology 2013)

The Archive -- 2014(128 items)
(You can also view the links to 2014's items for all countries combined as a single date sequence at News Chronology 2014)

The Archive -- 2015(93 items)
(You can also view the links to 2015's items for all countries combined as a single date sequence at News Chronology 2015)

The Archive -- 2016(78 items)
(You can also view the links to 2016's items for all countries combined as a single date sequence at News Chronology 2016)

The Archive -- 2017(77 items)
(You can also view the links to 2017's items for all countries combined as a single date sequence at News Chronology 2017)

The Archive -- 2018(57 items)
(You can also view the links to 2018's items for all countries combined as a single date sequence at News Chronology 2018)

The Archive -- 2019(43 items)
(You can also view the links to 2019's items for all countries combined as a single date sequence at News Chronology 2019)

CORPORAL PUNISHMENT BOOKS

Book reviews page 1

The Canadian Regulation School Strap: How the strap was adopted, dispensed and ultimately banned, and why it is gone forever.

Was this considered a normal, everyday part of a policeman's duties? Why hasn't it appeared in the latest update?

-- [10] How do you decide what to include in the website? With links to over 20 press items and several previously undiscovered pictures, and extracts from two of his publications.

Eric Wildman: 1950s crusader for corporal punishment
Subtly witty essay from 1956.

Stretching Forward to Learn
A first-person account of caning at a UK boys' school in the 1960s.

Corporal punishment: the Friends Reunited evidence
What do the entries in Friends Reunited tell us about corporal punishment in UK schools in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s?

(illustrated)

FEATURE ARTICLES: JUDICIAL/PRISON CP

Judicial corporal punishment in Britain(illustrated)
A comprehensive historical overview.

Judicial corporal punishment in South Africa
Illustrated feature article in 12 parts.

Birching in the Isle of Man 1945 to 1976(illustrated) (with 2 video clips)
Overview of the post-war use of judicial CP in this independent British offshore island.

Judicial Caning in Singapore, Malaysia and Brunei(illustrated)
Everything you ever wanted to know about the court-ordered canings in these three Commonwealth countries in south-east Asia.

The Canadian Prison Strap
In three parts: official views and opinions, recipients' descriptions, and full details of the two different methods used, illustrated with pictures of the various equipment used and of the strap itself.

Timeline: Aaron Cohen
A New Zealand youth caned in Malaysia: Chronology of the Aaron Cohen saga, with 17 archive press items and 4 photographs.

FEATURE ARTICLES: MILITARY CP

Corporal punishment in the British Army(illustrated)
Official and less official flogging, caning and spanking down to the present era.

Kissing the Gunner's Daughter: Part I - 1780 to 1860(illustrated)
Full details of the flogging of young seamen in the UK Royal Navy.

Kissing the Gunner's Daughter: Part II - The 1860s Ryder Reforms(illustrated)
The birch replaces the cat for the punishment of Navy boys.

Corporal punishment in the British Navy(illustrated)
Developments in the 20th century.

Caning in the Singapore armed forces(illustrated)
Singapore is one of few countries today where formal CP is an official part of the disciplinary regime in the military.

FEATURE ARTICLES: REFORMATORY CP

Caning, birching and strapping in UK reformatories
How it used to be in Approved Schools and other British youth institutions: regulations, theory and practice, with links to key documents.

The Court Lees Approved School Affair
Overview, with links to numerous press extracts, of the 1967 Gibbens inquiry into excessive canings at this UK boys' reformatory.

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The focus is on views not widely expressed on the Web -- not excluding pro-CP perspectives, since arguments against corporal punishment overwhelmingly dominate the debate, on the internet as elsewhere.

Corporal punishment in general:

Corporal Punishment by David Benatar, Philosophy Department, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Dr Benatar considers the CP of youngsters from a moral and ethical point of view.

If it is a large page containing several items, you may then need to use the search function in your own browser ("Find on this page") to find your item on the page.

EXTERNAL WEB LINKS (other than those listed in "Country files")

School corporal punishment (UK)
242 links

School corporal punishment (USA)
351 links

School corporal punishment (Other countries)
273 links

Judicial corporal punishment (countries A-R)
106 links

Judicial corporal punishment (countries S-Z)
190 links

Domestic (parental) corporal punishment
146 links

Other corporal punishment (military, prison, reformatory, fraternity, etc.)
255 links

The external links for school CP, judicial CP and domestic CP are classified by country within each type.

SOME ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS FROM READERS

-- [15] Now that the UK has left the European Union, will we see the return of school caning?

-- [14] The principal in one of your US school CP video clips says that paddling is an option only for boys.

Well worth reading.

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C. Did he sign up to it, as it were, when he joined the force?

-- [4] How did school corporal punishment vanish so fast in the UK? What was the European Union's role?

-- [3] Which US states still permit school paddling and which have banned it?

-- [2] I've heard mention of something called an Eton pop-tanning.

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. Purley High School for Boys
Article about a UK state school with a robust caning regime in the 1970s and 1980s.

Top CP Schools: 2.

This section will, over time, develop some lines of argument from a variety of sources about different aspects of corporal punishment. No app download, no phone number
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ESSAYS AND OPINIONS

Although this website contains mainly factual material, expressions of argument and opinion also have their place, provided they are clearly labelled as such.

Includes a "Top Fifty CP Schools" feature based on the number of mentions of CP for each school.

Voluntary Corporal Punishment Reduces Suspension Rates by Tim Yancey
Study 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.

Corporal punishment policy, practice, procedure, regulation, and world, judicial and parental CP influences, by Harold A. Hoff

The Collector's Guide to the School Strap: Scotland, England, Ireland, Canada, Australia & Others -- Second edition, by Harold A. Hoff

Just and Painful: A Case for the Corporal Punishment of Criminals, by Graeme Newman

Sons of the Brave: The Story of Boy Soldiers, by A.W.

Cockerill

Book reviews page 2

The English Vice: Beating, Sex and Shame in Victorian Britain and After, by Ian Gibson

Caning: Educational Ritual, by Joseph A. Mercurio
(Full text of book available for free download)

Book reviews page 3

When Caning Meets the Eighth Amendment: Whipping Offenders in the United States, by Daniel E.

Hall

The Caning of Michael Fay: The Inside Story by a Singaporean, by Gopal Baratham (illustrated)

Book reviews page 4

The History of Corporal Punishment: A Survey of Flagellation in its Historical, Anthropological and Sociological Aspects, by George Ryley Scott (illustrated)

The Whip and the Rod: An Account of Corporal Punishment among all Nations and for all Purposes, by R.G.

Van Yelyr (illustrated)

Child of the Happy Valley: A Memoir, by Juanita Carberry with Nicola Tyrer

Book reviews page 5

Red Hannah: Delaware's Whipping Post, by Robert Graham Caldwell (illustrated)

The Flogging of Singapore: The Michael Fay Affair, by Asid Latif

Book reviews page 6

Corporal punishment: Is it effective? An empirical study of school punishment records, by Harold A.

Hoff

COUNTRY FILES, including rules, regulations, laws, official documents, eyewitness accounts, operational procedures

Those Country files in full

An overview of the CP situation, past and present, for a large number of countries of the world. The author writes from personal experience and a lifetime's careful observation.

Judicial corporal punishment:

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Copyright © C. Farrell 2025 -- Who is C. Farrell? Farrell's letter to a British politician, 1982 suggesting that you cannot sell the idea of judicial corporal punishment by concentrating exclusively on the deterrence argument, and discussing a number of legal and technical points that need to be addressed in any new proposal.

For further arguments in favour of a return to judicial corporal punishment in the UK, see A fair price to pay, The Guardian, London, 14 March 1998.

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Isn't that unacceptably sexist?

-- [13] In which year was there the most CP of teenagers in UK schools?

-- [12] I am a little troubled by the reference to Eric Wildman, who, I assume, was a founder of your Organisation, in Ian Gibson's The English Vice, p.60.

-- [11] I sent in a news item.

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