| Corporal punishment,... Why not?? So long as the punishment fits the crime. Some people respect nothing else. Until the 1960s my state had "birching" as a standard punishment for males committing crimes involving assault and battery. It was so rare as to make the front page of the paper, now they don't even report it unless the victim looks like dying.
Every case must be judged on it's merits. Different punishments work with different kids, recently a young teen in my town was found to be stealing other kids bikes. Apparently the miscreant had ideas of using the parts to make his own bike better. He went to court, and i don't know whathe got there, but when he came home amongst other things, his father gave him a hacksaw and made him cut his own bike into pieces small enough to fit in a 1 cub ft. cardboard box. which he then threw in the rubbish collection. I think it was very fitting punishment |