The Howard League for Penal Reform campaigned in the 1930s for, among many other things, the abolition of judicial corporal punishment by cat-o'- nine-tails or birching.
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Birching was conducted by policemen in private, in the presence of Tyrer's father and a doctor; Tyrer was made to take down his trousers and underpants and bend over a table.
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In past times, corporal punishment ( spanking or strapping or birching the student in order to cause physical pain ) was one of the most common forms of school discipline throughout much of the world.
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To replace headmaster's birching, he introduced private caning, also administered to the bare posterior of the boy, who was required to lower his trousers and underpants and bend over in his office.
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Otherwise it was usually applied on the bare buttocks, adding humiliation to the physical pain, like the English and Commonwealth caning, birching, naval cat o'nine tails, American paddling, et cetera.
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Pate was sentenced to seven years of penal transportation, which his father thought a better result than the ignominy of imprisonment in the UK accompanied by a birching, even though that was a nominally lesser sentence.
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:" " I would delight in birching both of you " Those words spoken by a magistrate nearly 30 ago, to two mentally retarded children, should be burnt into the soul of every Manxman.
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Another device used to immobilise offenders was a "'birching table "', used in Scotland, with two holes in it through which the offender's arms were inserted but otherwise left free and untied.
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A " hazel rod " is particularly painful; a bundle of four or five hazel twigs was used in the 1960s and 1970s on the Isle of Man, the last jurisdiction in Europe to use birching as a judicial penalty.
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Discipline in the Carolingian schools was maintained by the proscholus, and that the medieval scholar dreaded the rod is clear from an episode in the history of the school of St . Gall where, in order to escape a birching, the boys set fire to the monastery.
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