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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Abolition of judicial corporal punishment
- Australia: Federal level, 1914; South Australia, 1971; Tasmania, 1973; New South Wales, 1974; ACT, 1974; NT, 1974; Western Australia, 1993
- Barbados, 1992 (for adults; JCP remains lawful for juvenile offenders)
- Fiji: ruled unconstitutional in 2002 (but N.B. courts still ordering it in 2005)
- Finland, 1889 (for adults; JCP was still in use for juveniles in the 1930s)
- Guyana, 2010 (at any rate for juveniles)
- Ireland, 1997 (but it had fallen into disuse long before that)
- Isle of Man, 1993 (last used in 1976)
- Jamaica, outlawed by Appeal Court, 1998
- Jamaica, abolished in legislation, 2013
- Jersey (Channel Islands), 1969
- Tanzania (Zanzibar only), 2004
- Trinidad, late 1930s, but reintroduced in 1946
- United Kingdom, 1948 (England, Wales, Scotland, but not Northern Ireland)
- United States: Delaware, 1972 (last used in 1952)
- Zambia, outlawed by courts, 1999; abolition agreed by Parliament, 2003
Abolition of school corporal punishment
- Australia: Capital Territory: state schools, 1988; all schools, 1997
- Australia: New South Wales (state schools), 1986
- Australia: New South Wales (all schools), 1997
- Australia: Queensland (state schools), 1995
- Australia: Tasmania, 1999
- Australia: Victoria (state schools), 1983
- Australia: Western Australia (state schools), 1987
- Canada: Alberta: Northern Gateway district, 2003
- Canada: Alberta: Peace Wapiti, 2004
- Canada: British Columbia, 1973
- Canada: Ontario: Scarborough, 1985
- Canada: Ontario: Toronto, 1971
- Canada: Ontario: Toronto (Catholic schools), 1985
- Canada: Quebec, mid-1960s
- Canada: Saskatchewan: Regina district, 1987
- Canada: Saskatchewan, 2005
- China, 1949 (but still unlawfully in use in 2005)
- Fiji: ruled unconstitutional in 2002 but not yet legislatively abolished
- France: primary schools, 2014
- Ghana, 2019 (administrative ban but not legislatively abolished)
- Greece: secondary schools, 2005
- India: Andhra Pradesh, 2002
- India: Delhi region, 2000
- India: Orissa, 2004
- India: West Bengal, 2004
- Kenya, 2001 (but N.B. still in use in 2004)
- Nigeria: Nasarawa State, 2018
- Nigeria: Rivers State, 2005
- Pakistan: North West Frontier Province, 2004
- Pakistan: North West Frontier Province (again), 2005
- Pakistan: Punjab, 2000
- Pakistan: Sindh, 2002
- Philippines: Negros Oriental, 2004
- South Korea: 1998; reintroduced in 1999
- South Korea: Gyeonggi Province, 2010
- South Korea: Seoul, 2010
- Taiwan: in theory banned by Ministry regulation, 2004
- Taiwan: prohibited by law, 2006
- Uganda, 1997, ban evidently not put into practice
- Uganda, 2006 (administrative ban, not legislative)
- Uganda, 2016 (outlawed in legislation)
- UK campaign to abolish gets under way, 1972
- UK: Inner London (primary schools), 1973
- UK: Inner London (except for voluntary aided schools), 1981
- UK: state schools (and state-funded pupils in private schools), 1987
- UK: private schools except in Northern Ireland, 1998
- UK: Northern Ireland private schools, 2003
- USA: Alabama: Baldwin County, 2011
- USA: Alabama: Birmingham, 1998
- USA: Alabama: Guntersville, 2015
- USA: Alabama: Homewood City, 1998
- USA: Alabama: Huntsville, 2011
- USA: Alabama: Jacksonville, c.1990
- USA: Alabama: Madison City, 1999
- USA: Alabama: Mobile, 2003
- USA: Alabama: Ozark City, 1999; reintroduced 2011
- USA: Arkansas: Cleveland County, 2019
- USA: Arkansas: Conway, 2006
- USA: Arkansas: Fayetteville, 2002
- USA: Arkansas: Hughes, c.2004
- USA: Arkansas: Rogers, 2005
- USA: Arkansas: Siloam Springs, 2008
- USA: Arkansas: Watson Chapel, 2015
- USA: Arkansas: Winslow, c.1997
- USA: California: Iowa Hill, 1936
- USA: California: John Swett district (Crockett/Rodeo), 1982
- USA: California: Los Angeles, 1975; reintroduced, 1980 and abolished again, 1984
- USA: California, 1986
- USA: Colorado: Littleton, 1988
- USA: Delaware, 2003
- USA: District of Columbia, 1918
- USA: Florida: Alachua County, 1989
- USA: Florida: Bay District, 2014
- USA: Florida: Duval County (includes Jacksonville), 2005
- USA: Florida: Escambia County, 2000s
- USA: Florida: Lake County, 2015
- USA: Florida: Manatee County, 1989
- USA: Florida: Marion County, 2010; reintroduced (elementary level only), 2013; abolished again, 2014
- USA: Florida: Okaloosa, 2009
- USA: Florida: Polk County, 2008
- USA: Florida: Santa Rosa, 2014
- USA: Florida: Walton County, 2014
- USA: Georgia: Cherokee County, 2003
- USA: Georgia: Columbia County, 2008
- USA: Georgia: DeKalb County, 2012
- USA: Georgia: Fayette, 1996
- USA: Georgia: Glynn County, 2005
- USA: Georgia: Henry County, 1998
- USA: Georgia: Lanier, c.1986; reintroduced 2005
- USA: Georgia: Muscogee County, 2013
- USA: Georgia: Paulding County, 2016
- USA: Georgia: Valdosta City, 1996
- USA: Illinois, 1994
- USA: Indiana: East Allen, 1989
- USA: Indiana: Elkhart, 2005
- USA: Indiana: Fort Wayne, 1988
- USA: Indiana: Indianapolis, 2004
- USA: Indiana: Merrillville, 2004
- USA: Indiana: Michigan City, 2007
- USA: Indiana: Mishawaka, 2003
- USA: Indiana: Mitchell Community Schools, Lawrence County, 2004
- USA: Indiana: Penn-Harris-Madison, 2001
- USA: Indiana: South Bend, 1991
- USA: Indiana: South Dearborn, 2013
- USA: Indiana: Southwest Allen, 1989
- USA: Kansas: Halstead-Bentley, 1997
- USA: Kentucky, 1991; reintroduced, 1992
- USA: Kentucky: Jefferson County, 1990
- USA: Louisiana: Calcasieu Parish, 2014
- USA: Louisiana: East Baton Rouge, 2002
- USA: Louisiana: Jeff Davis Parish, 2017
- USA: Louisiana: Jefferson Parish, 2012
- USA: Louisiana: Lafourche, 2010
- USA: Louisiana: St Helena Parish, 2013
- USA: Louisiana: St James Parish, 2004
- USA: Louisiana: Tangipahoa Parish, 2010
- USA: Louisiana: Terrebonne, 2012
- USA: Massachusetts, 1972
- USA: Michigan, 1989
- USA: Minnesota: Minneapolis, 1986
- USA: Mississippi: Greenville, 2018
- USA: Mississippi: Gulfport, early 1990s
- USA: Mississippi: Holmes County, 2018
- USA: Mississippi: Jackson, 1991
- USA: Mississippi: Lafayette County, 2019
- USA: Mississippi: Lamar County, 2008
- USA: Mississippi: Starkville, 2005
- USA: Missouri: Fox, 2004
- USA: Missouri: Kirksville, 2011
- USA: Missouri: New Franklin, 2005
- USA: Missouri: Nixa, 2005
- USA: Missouri: Palmyra, 2011
- USA: Missouri: Plato, 2005
- USA: Missouri: Sikeston, 2019
- USA: Missouri: St Joseph, 2009
- USA: Missouri: St Louis, 1981
- USA: Missouri: Southwest (Barry County), 2008 -- see this video clip
- USA: Montana, 1991
- USA: New Jersey, 1867
- USA: New Mexico, 2011
- USA: New York State: Mechanicville, 1981
- USA: New York State: New York City, 1870
- USA: New York State, 1985
- USA: North Carolina: Alamance-Burlington, 2007
- USA: North Carolina: Burke, 2012
- USA: North Carolina: Charlotte-Mecklenburg, 1991
- USA: North Carolina: Clay County, 2011
- USA: North Carolina: Cleveland County, 2009
- USA: North Carolina: Columbus County, 2012
- USA: North Carolina: Cumberland County, 1997
- USA: North Carolina: Duplin County, 2011
- USA: North Carolina: Gaston County, 2011
- USA: North Carolina: Graham County, 2018
- USA: North Carolina: Harnett, 2008
- USA: North Carolina: Hickory, 1994
- USA: North Carolina: Iredell-Statesville, 2011
- USA: North Carolina: Jackson County, 2001
- USA: North Carolina: Macon County, 2016
- USA: North Carolina: McDowell County, 2014
- USA: North Carolina: Madison County, 2014
- USA: North Carolina: Mooresville, 2008
- USA: North Carolina: Nash-Rocky Mount, 2011
- USA: North Carolina: New Hanover County, 1991
- USA: North Carolina: Onslow County, 2014
- USA: North Carolina: Robeson County, 2018
- USA: North Carolina: Rockingham County, 2011
- USA: North Carolina: Rowan-Salisbury, 2009
- USA: North Carolina: Sampson County, 2004
- USA: North Carolina: Surry County, 2010
- USA: North Carolina: Swain County, 2015
- USA: North Carolina: Union County, 2007
- USA: Ohio, 2009
- USA: Ohio: Ashland, 2004
- USA: Ohio: Butler County, 1980s
- USA: Ohio: Chillicothe, 1999
- USA: Ohio: Hamilton City, 2007
- USA: Ohio: Toledo, 1993
- USA: Oklahoma: Duncan, c.1992; reintroduced 1996
- USA: Oklahoma: Grove, 2009
- USA: Oklahoma: Norman, 1988
- USA: Oklahoma: Oklahoma City, 1989
- USA: Oklahoma: Pike, 1999; reintroduced c.2002
- USA: Oklahoma: Sallisaw, 2005
- USA: Oklahoma: Tahlequah, 2010
- USA: Oklahoma: Tulsa, 1991
- USA: Oklahoma: Union, 1991
- USA: Oregon, 1989
- USA: Pennsylvania: Erie, 1997
- USA: Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh, 1977
- USA: Pennsylvania: South-Eastern, 2002
- USA: Pennsylvania: Washington, 2004
- USA: Pennsylvania, 2005
- USA: South Carolina: Berkeley County, 2009
- USA: South Carolina: Calhoun County, 2011
- USA: South Carolina: Georgetown County School District, 2011
- USA: South Carolina: Orangeburg, 2003
- USA: South Carolina: Sumter School District 17, 2011
- USA: Tennessee: Bristol City, 2009
- USA: Tennessee: Hawkins County, 2018
- USA: Tennessee: Jackson-Madison County, 2017
- USA: Tennessee: Maryville, 2005
- USA: Tennessee: Maury County, 2009
- USA: Tennessee: Memphis, 2004
- USA: Tennessee: Murfreesboro, 2001
- USA: Tennessee: Nashville, 2002
- USA: Tennessee: Oak Ridge, 2019 New!
- USA: Tennessee: Robertson County, 2018
- USA: Tennessee: Wilson County, 2017
- USA: Texas: Abilene, 2016
- USA: Texas: Angleton, 2003
- USA: Texas: Boyd, 2006
- USA: Texas: Bryan, 1999
- USA: Texas: Cleburne, 2011
- USA: Texas: Dallas, 2005
- USA: Texas: Dayton, c.2015
- USA: Texas: Ector County, 2016
- USA: Texas: Fort Worth, 1999
- USA: Texas: Frenship, 2003
- USA: Texas: Frisco, 2006
- USA: Texas: Galena Park, 2008
- USA: Texas: Galveston, 2003
- USA: Texas: Goose Creek, 2013
- USA: Texas: Houston, 2001
- USA: Texas: Irving, 2008
- USA: Texas: Katy, 1993
- USA: Texas: Lewisville, 2008
- USA: Texas: Lubbock-Cooper, c.1995
- USA: Texas: McAllen, 2004
- USA: Texas: Marfa, 2013
- USA: Texas: Mesquite, 2005
- USA: Texas: Mexia, 2003; reintroduced 2009
- USA: Texas: Midland, 2017
- USA: Texas: Nacogdoches, 2017
- USA: Texas: Plano, 2006
- USA: Texas: Sheldon, 2002
- USA: Texas: Spring, 2005
- USA: Texas: Waco, 2005
- USA: Utah, 1992
- USA: Virginia, 1989
- USA: Washington State, 1993
- USA: Washington State: Seattle, 1984
- USA: West Virginia, 1994
- USA: Wyoming: Uinta County, 2019
Abolition of prison corporal punishment
- Philippines: Cebu Province, 2013
Army, Singapore
- 1972 legislation providing for caning of soldiers under military law
- further legislation introduced, press report, 1975
Army, UK
- birching in UK military prisons, 19th century
- caning as initiation ceremony for teenage soldiers, known as "babooning", news report, 2005
- caning at Army Apprentice Schools, 1948 (with video clip)
- colonel canes his batman (unofficial), 1953
- political row over UK soldiers caned abroad, 1955
- punishment of boy soldiers, Sons of the Brave, book review
Belt, see Strap
Birching, armed forces, UK
- in military prisons
- introduced for boys in the Royal Navy, 1860s
- unverified claim of birching (unofficial) in Royal Air Force training establishment, 1937
Birching, judicial penalty, Australia
- boy birched for indecency, press report of court case, 1957
- call for its use on violent criminals, 2000
- man birched for indecent assault, press report of court case, 1930
- politician calls for it to be brought back, 2004
Birching, judicial penalty, Bermuda
- government minister calls for it to be used again, 1996
Birching, judicial penalty, Germany
- for men, under Saxon Code of 1855
Birching, judicial penalty, Guernsey (Channel Islands)
- teenager ordered to be birched, report of court case, 1930
- 16-year-old describes his birching in press article, 1968
Birching, judicial penalty, Ireland
- four boys to be birched, press report, 1943
Birching, judicial penalty, Isle of Man
- famous case of four Scottish youths birched in 1965, press coverage, photo showing weals
- of teenage males up to 1976 (though not formally abolished until 1993), illustrated feature article
Birching, judicial penalty, Jersey (Channel Islands)
- 15-year-old describes his birching in press article, 1964
- teenage youths birched for assault, two separate cases in one month, press reports, 1962
- typical prewar court case, three teen youths birched, 1939
Birching, judicial penalty (juvenile), New Zealand
- press account of court case, 1902
Birching, judicial penalty, Trinidad & Tobago
- press account of court case, 1999
- birchings still being upheld by appeal court, 2004
Birching, judicial penalty, UK
- judicial corporal punishment in Britain: illustrated article
- abolished in 1948; reintroduction unsuccessfully proposed in 1953
- politicians again call for it to be brought back, 1956
- further unsuccessful attempt at reintroduction, 1982
- police chief calls for reintroduction, 1987
- tabloid newspaper demands its reintroduction, 1993
- retired senior judge suggests it be considered again,1993
- of juvenile by local court, press report of typical English case, 1886
- typical court cases in provincial England, 1897
- juvenile court, press report of typical English case, 1911
- juvenile court, press report of typical English case, 1937
- juvenile birching in Scotland, historical overview and description
- of adult men, especially for robbery with violence, article
- press report of one of the last adult birching sentences, 1948
- unsuccessful parliamentary attempt to extend magistrates' birching powers to boys of 15 and 16 in England and Wales, 1900
Birching, prison discipline, Bermuda
- rules for infliction, 1951
Birching, prison discipline, Papua New Guinea
- rules for infliction, 1938
Birching, prison discipline, UK
- inaccurate press description in 1964
- memorandum from Home Office to prisons, 1951
- prisoner birched for attacking warder, press report, 1954
Birching, schools, England
- Eton College, ceremonial "swiping" by headmaster, continued until c.1963
- Eton College, pictures of birch and birching block in school museum
- Eton College, birching block stolen, 1907
- Eton College, news report on death of "messenger" whose job it was to hold down boys being birched, 1956
- Eton College, unsourced descriptions of birching
(EXTERNAL LINK to UK "Corporal punishment archive" website)
- fantasy "birching machine", drawing in boys' magazine, probably c.1920s
- gradually replaced by cane in most schools: timescale and possible reasons
- Westminster School, photograph of birch
Boys
(see also Birching/schools/England, Caning/schools/....., Paddling in US schools)
- 42 youths fined, put in reformatory for 25 days and then flogged for rioting, destroying cars and disturbing women, Saudi Arabia, 2004
- boy actor ordered caned by Zimbabwe court for going to bed with his girlfriend, 2002
- boy publicly strapped in Pakistan, 1997
- boy seamen flogged across bare buttocks on board UK ships, 19th century, illustrated feature article
- boy soldiers' punishments described, Sons of the Brave, book review
- boy of 14 publicly flogged in Iran, for drinking alcohol, 2001
- caned and tawsed in Scottish schools, illustrated feature article
- caned at UK reformatories esp. for absconding
- caned, allegedly excessively, at Court Lees Approved School, UK, 1967, illustrated feature article
- caned by order of tribal court, Sudan, British colonial era (pre-1955), eyewitness account
- caning of, for offences against reformatory discipline, Hong Kong, 1977 regulations
- caning of, at Northern Ireland borstal, introduced in 1930
- caning of boy servant, UK, 1795, upheld in court case
- canings filmed in "aerodynamics experiment", New Zealand, 1981
- canings of, frequent occurrence in Singapore schools, overview, see also official rules and school handbooks
- canings of, by order of the court, for 'political' offences, Cyprus, 1956, several press reports
- court orders 15-year-old to be caned there and then by his father, Malaysia, 1997
- court orders 17-year-old to drop his pants for on-the-spot caning in the courtroom, Tanzania, 2006
- eyewitness account of school paddling of, Texas, 1981
- flogged in front of a girls' school by order of the court, Saudi Arabia, 2004
- flogged unofficially in the street by police, India, 2007, video clip
- judicial birching and caning of, Isle of Man, illustrated feature article
- judicial birching of, New Zealand, court cases, 1900
- judicial birching of, Scotland pre-1948, brief overview
- judicial caning of, Australia, court case, 1889
- judicial caning of, Brunei, court case, 2004
- judicial caning of, Nigeria, for allowing themselves to be sodomised, 2003
- judicial caning of, South Africa, up to 1995, feature article
- judicial caning of, South Africa, court cases, 1955
- judicial caning of, Swaziland, court case, 2005
- juvenile court may not order caning in Singapore
- made to change into silky shorts to be caned, UK reformatory, 1980s
- may be caned at army apprentice school up to age 17½, instead of being confined to barracks, if parents agree, UK, 1948, press report and video clip
- may be paddled if they do not tuck their shirts into their pants, new dress code at Florida school, USA, 2002
- paddled at Canadian RC college, even in senior grades, 1979
- paddled at private schools in Canada, article and video clip
- paddled by police chief as part of juvenile diversion program, Ohio, USA, 2004
- paddled by teammates on coach's orders, Texas school, 2002
- paddled more often than girls in US schools, press report
- paddled schoolboys and their complaining mothers, USA, 2005, video clips from TV news
- publicly caned in Singapore schools, present day, video clips
- publicly flogged in Saudi Arabia for harassing women, 2002
- publicly strapped in Bermuda school, press reports, 1998
- Purley High School for, near London, frequent caning at, feature article
- received "licks on their seat" at school in 1930s Guyana
- shown video of prison caning to deter them from life of crime, Singapore, 2002
- spanked by driver on school bus, Alabama, 2002
- spanked over the seat of their pants in open court, Indiana, 1962
- spanking of by sports coach does not constitute sexual assault, court ruling, UK, 2003
- senior, paddled in US schools, Tennessee case, 1959, illustrated press report
- to be caned only on the buttocks, government guidelines, South Korea, 2002
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