Mason was one of few Westerners to visit China in the 18th century, and it is conceivable that he was actually shown some of these events. The main character ( Kit Harington), a slave in love with a Roman girl, is whipped by the Romans, receiving 15 lashes with a bullwhip. In 2011 the Attorney-General stated that school CP could be administered only by the principal or delegate, and that the government was not going to abolish it because it had public support.

Note that, although some news reports originally alleged that the boys had to drop their pants to be paddled on their bare behinds, these pictures show that, as Chief Martin stressed at his trial, that was not the case. We now have this less-cropped version of the above picture. We can now see that the offender is also being held by his feet. This is gradually being developed into an overview of the CP situation, past and present, for each country. 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. The Collector's Guide to the School Strap: Scotland, England, Ireland, Canada, Australia & Others -- Second edition, by Harold A. Hoff

Judicial birching was abolished in the Isle of Man in 1993 following the 1978 judgment in Tyrer v. UK by the European Court of Human Rights. [63] The last birching had taken place in January 1976; the last caning, of a 13-year-old boy convicted of robbing another child of 10p, was the last recorded juvenile case in May 1971. [64] United States [ edit ] Judicial corporal punishment in a women's prison, USA (ca. 1890) South Australia: A 1956 news report claimed that CP of girls was banned. CP was reportedly abolished in state schools in 1982, although another report said in 1990 that it was still by then only in the process of being p Zwettl is a town in Lower Austria. This machine is in its local museum. It looks at first glance like a guillotine for beheading people, but evidently the device at the head end is just for holding the culprit's head firm during the flogging. Note straps/chains for securing lower body to bench. What is quite interesting is that, unlike the other dummy caning pictures we have seen, the audience here are not the general public but uniformed staff of some kind. Could this be a sort of preliminary training session for prison officers thinking of volunteering to become whipping operatives?

Heeralal, Darryl (4 June 2005). "Jail, strokes for 'dirty old man' ". Trinidad Express. Port of Spain. Mark (2016-07-06). "This romantic thriller based on a true story is undermined by compromises". Mature Times . Retrieved 2021-05-15. Caning the soles of the feet, a nasty tradition in the Middle East, including (as here) Persia, date unknown. How it used to be in Approved Schools and other British youth institutions: regulations, theory and practice, with links to key documents. Found in the Norway Resistance Museum at Akershus Fortress in Oslo. The whip may have been used on prisoners during the German occupation of Norway (1940-1945). This example is in very poor condition and has evidently lost most of its "tails".From dailywqt.com (Sep 2008). "Members of Tehrik-e-Taliban (TIP) have 'arrested' a petty criminal, and are meting out punishment in public in Swat as an implementation of Sharia Laws." These people never seem to learn how to do CP properly. Here, the person wielding the cane is also one of those trying to hold the prisoner still, clearly an inefficient procedure. In this Spanish short film, a young girl recalls events from her immediate past, including a game of spin-the-bottle, in which the loser (her) is whipped by the winner. [19] You can also view the links to 2000's items for all countries combined as a single date sequence at News Chronology 2000)

You can also view the links to 2017's items for all countries combined as a single date sequence at News Chronology 2017)This Nov 2015 news item reaffirmed that the authorities were not then proposing abolition, and implied that the normal instrument used is the strap.