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Defined Terms
Flogging
or
Floggings
means
the number of -
*
lashes of the
Cat 'O Nine Tails across the bare back; and
* canings
of the
Australian Rattan across the bare buttocks,
that are chronicled in
Number Of Punishment Strokes In The Pilot
Stage Of The Re-introduction Of
Corporal Punishment in Australia for
Suitable Male Criminals
and for Non-Murderous
Crimes listed under
Penalty Scale therein.
a)
History of Corporal Punishment for adults
"Into the 1930s and early 1940s,
Australian judges ordered
whippings with a cane, a leather strap or a birch
rod. Others directed whipping with the infamous cat of nine tails. While whippings were in decline, they
continued to be applied to offences like robbery in
company, robbery with violence, or wounding with
intent to do grievous bodily harm. But most whipping
sentences occurred following convictions for sexual
offences against women and children.....In Queensland, whipping stayed ‘on the books’ in
the Criminal Code until the mid-1980s."
Magistrates Sentenced Australian male youths up to 18 years old with canings in
1956
"He adjourned the case for a
week so that the boys
could each be given eight strokes of the cane."
"Flogging or whipping, including foot whipping, is still a
common punishment in some parts of the world, particularly in countries using
Islamic law and in some territories formerly under British rule. Medically
supervised caning is routinely ordered by the courts as a penalty for some
categories of crime in Singapore, Brunei, Malaysia, Indonesia, Tanzania,
Zimbabwe and elsewhere. Flogging is a form of punishment used under
Islamic Sharia law. It is the prescribed punishment (hudud) for offences
including fornication, alcohol use and slander and is also widely favoured as a
discretionary punishment (ta'zir) for many offences, such as violating gender
interaction laws (zina). Punishment is normally carried out in public to
discourage others."
Parent Punishing a Child in the Home' Philosophy has existed
since time immemorial,
whereby a child is
punished by one of its parents quickly after it transgresses; such
Punishment
appears
frightening and painful
to the young child. "
"The model has universally prevailed for hundreds if not thousands of years
amongst communities under the belief off
‘spare the rod and spoil the child".
Following
punishment, rehabilitation
commences immediately and is achieved as quickly as possible.
The same Sentencing levels applied to
Judicial Corporal Punishment for Adults in Australia until the mid 1940s
is still applied in
three adjacent members of the
Commonwealth of Nations in South-East Asia
that each have
significantly lower crime rates than Australia).
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