Spanking series – 5

JUDICIAL MODEL…again taken from Wiki:

In many cultures and legal systems it was common to administer judicial and prison beatings on the buttocks (convicts by definition are at the mercy of the authorities ; even today severe punishments, even the dreaded judicial ‘Singapore’ cane, are awarded to enforce internal prison rules in various countries).

For obvious practical reasons adults are rarely spanked over knee or lap, rather bending or bound over some object, or construction or standing or hanging (as usual for punishment above the waist) against a wall or whipping post.

• Often the strong arm of the law — mainly (para)military and police, charged with the physical execution of corporal punishment — and some similarly hierarchical organisations, has particularly strict internal discipline, usually enforced internally (as by court-martial, or in ‘minor’ cases simply by the superior officer), which in many traditions entailed punishing the culprit’s (often bared) tail-end.
• Judicial corporal punishment is still used in some post-colonial, non-Islamic countries, including caning or even the cat o’ nine tails in certain Commonwealth nations.
• Traditional justice such as in tribal chief‘s courts not infrequently includes spanking, sometimes even carried out by the regular police force.
• Even where corporal punishment is illegal, or very restricted, it rather often is a common weapon for so-called vigilante justice, sometimes tolerated or even legally legitimated by the authorities (as in various parts of Africa, e.g. Botswana), sometimes practiced by rebels (as in Nepal), often remarkably popular with the general public or a large section where official ‘modern’ western-style justice seems unable to stem crime, as in South Africa.
• There are cases of ‘summary justice‘ which do not fit the vigilante logic, but still intend to enforce a social order by improvised corporal punishment, such as some Bolivian bus drivers using a belt on strike-breaking colleagues on the streets, or “In French pit villages the wives of striking miners confronted scabs and humiliated them by removing their trousers and spanking them.” -Lynn Abrams, The Making of Modern Woman (New York: Pearson Education Limited, 2002), 203.

Interesting to look at the use of spanking within the law…or private interpretation of the law…in various times or countries. Shall we treat our slaves and subs like prisoners too?

Lady Evyl