By G. Geltner
Corporal punishment is usually thought of a relic of the Western prior, a collection of thinly veiled barbaric practices principally deserted within the means of civilization. As G. Geltner argues, notwithstanding, the infliction of physically soreness was once now not inevitably usual for previous societies, nor has it vanished from sleek penal conception, coverage, and perform. on the contrary, corporal punishment nonetheless prospers at the present time due to its means to outline otherness successfully and unambiguously. hard a couple of universal myths and misconceptions approximately actual punishment’s significance over the centuries, Flogging Others deals a brand new point of view on modernization and Western identification.
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Prescriptions and descriptions of such rituals from across the Islamicate world strongly suggest that culprits were routinely subjected to injury alongside verbal abuse, since executors burdened them physically in diverse ways and observers hurled objects at them or even beat them. More important, while such elements probably constituted abuses of a formal protocol, tashhīr could also involve shaving the culprit’s head and blackening his or her face, measures that struck many Islamic jurists as a form of bodily mutilation (muthla).
Sassanian records, by contrast, allow us to talk less about status biases (though these may well have existed) in corporal punishment than about the tension between secular and religious approaches, which are strikingly different. Secular rulers were caught between their desire to portray themselves as efficient and benevolent in the exercise of punishment and 40 the broad space given to corporal punishment in the religious scriptures by which they were also bound. Written around the eighth century BCE, and possibly reflecting a still earlier tradition, Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey portray a society heavily reliant on self-help or private vendetta, where harsh punishments were often determined and meted out quite simply by the party that could.
At least in principle, only when these failed to deter or prevent recidivism could a judge resort to corporal punishment. And even then certain and telling limitations were put in place, which served to reinforce social hierarchies and boundaries. 53 This casuistic (‘if…then’) text addresses numerous cases, running the gamut from labor to civic to criminal law, and in doing so attests the degree of judicial sophistication attendant upon a complex society. Anyone expecting a regime of physical brutality will be surprised to find very few sanctions of corporal punishment.