Arguments for corporal punishment

(a) The law as at present seems powerless to prevent daily robberies with violence and assaults on women and girls, Birching would be an effective deterrent.

(b) Longer prison terms are not enough, because prison is no longer tough. It has no terrors for the hardened criminal.

(c) Leniency and permissiveness have gone too far through the activities of well-meaning theorists. Harsher treatment is needed.

(d) No punishment is too severe for those who greviously injure or terrify people and make our public highways unsafe for the innocent. Some experienced and knowledgeable people, like the former Lord Chief Justice. Lord Goddard have said that corporal punishment has a deterrent effect.

(e) We should give thugs a taste of their own medicine.

(f) Many people believe that corporal punishment in childhood is beneficial. There is no reason why it should not be equally effective with criminals.

(g) Birching is the only way to express the community's revlusion at serious crimes of violence.