The Corporal Punishment of Schoolgirls

The completely revised, expanded and updated edition

In 1984, a Texas private reformatory offering ‘Bible Discipline’ spankings for wayward teenage girls was forced out of business by the state authorities. In 1997, after an intervention by the Governor, it reopened its doors. The Governor’s name… George W. Bush.

On the other side of the world, in 2001, a no-caning policy in Liberia’s schools was overturned after the country's president thrashed his daughter live on national TV ‘as an example to the nation…’

A year later, schools in South Korea began caning again after a two-year ban, with Thailand looking set to follow suit; and a school in New Zealand found a novel way around a government prohibition…

The Corporal Punishment of Schoolgirls is back! Hugely expanded, comprehensively updated, and packed with more facts and more pictures than ever before, this new edition is the definitive (and indeed only) work of its kind.