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Thailand: A mass caning at a boys' boarding school, which provoked a media storm locally. With news item (2010). A principal in another part of Missouri is found to have done no wrong in administering a paddling about which the student's mother complained. In California, a man punishing his son in his garden attracts the attention of prying neighbors. TV report (2012). United States: Two spanking machines. Part of our feature The Spanking Machine: A Resilient Myth in Popular Culture.
Schools in Temple, Texas, report improved behavior following the reintroduction a year ago of the paddle. Caught on camera at a public swimming pool in present-day Iran, punishment is administered with a flipper by the swim coach.Segment from a daytime TV chat show discussing a survey which found that many parents would like to see corporal punishment reintroduced in schools. United States: TV news report, Oct 2011: reactions to new law in North Carolina under which parents may exempt their students from CP. United States: TV news report (April 2016) from a school district in Georgia where the rod is not spared. New Zealand: TV news item (2007) about a Christian school that tried to evade the ban on corporal punishment by having parents come to the school to administer a paddling.
More than 100 people witnessed the caning in an Islamic court in the northeast state of Terengganu. In a jocular atmosphere in a Texas high-school classroom, a sports coach administers one paddle swat. A posed reconstruction of a child being spanked is shown over a phone interview in French with a psychologist who helped devise the spanking lessons for parents. Singapore: Real-life footage of four formal, English-style canings over bending schoolboys' trousers. United States: 4-minute TV news debate on school paddling (Sep 2013) arising out of the case of a mother in Alabama who objected to it.
Fun/Fraternity/Folklore CP
Clip (2003) shows parents spanking small children, interviews with a Christian father who spanks, lawyers, and activists, as anti-CP agitators take their case to the Canadian Supreme Court.
Singapore: TV news broadcast from April 1994 on the vandalism case involving Michael Fay but also, shown speaking here, 17-year-old Andy Shiu Chi Ho, who was to be caned (6 strokes) two months after this appearance. Unidentified country in the Middle East: Male teenage students bend over for a strapping from their female teacher (2018). New! From a TV documentary about the Russian army. Rookie soldiers get a taste of the belt from their mates. Of possible interest to film students and bad film buffs, two versions (TV and theater) of a scene from a cheesy TV-movie. "Nightmare in Badham County" was first shown on television in 1976 to capitalize on the then-popular women-in-prison exploitation trend. A racier R-rated version with added nude scenes was then released to theaters as "Nightmare" (and later on video). Part of the Syariah caning of a woman is shown. This was one of three, the first-ever canings of women in Malaysia (2010).United States: TV news report on school CP, June 2011: Developments in the continuing dispute over paddling at St Augustine High School, New Orleans. United States: Four TV news reports (Nov 2014) about school paddling in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida and Texas. More on the Mississippi case, and a look at the legal situation. Is transient bruising "bodily harm"? Syria/Iraq: Whippings by insurgent forces, including ISIS, who at the time had taken control of parts of both countries. Five films.
minute news report from Florida (2007) about a man who is in trouble for spanking his 8-year-old son with a belt. Includes interview with the man and his lawyer. In Punjab, half a dozen prisoners are disembarked from a police van and given a public paddling in the street. 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.
Domestic CP
Singapore: Two German youths sentenced to caning (3 strokes each) for vandalism, March 2015. Three video reports. Colombia: A youth gets a public whipping on his legs as part of a tribal community punishment for murder (2008). Two clips from North Carolina and one from Georgia look at the state of play over school paddling in specific places.