The Flogging Craze, A Statement of the Case Against Corporal Punishment

Henry S. Salt, Sir George Greenwood (Foreword)

• Publisher: George Allen & Unwin, London
• Published: 1916
• Length: 159 pages
• Format: Hardback

Summary

“A case which has never been made before in such convincing form.”—Everyman.

Content

• Contents
• Foreword
• The Revolt Against Flogging
• The Flogging of Juveniles
• The Flogging of Adults
• The Lash As A Purifier
• The Lash As A Deterrent
• Fallacies of Flagellants
• Revenge or Reclamation
• Appendix: A Flogging With The Cat-O’-Nine Tails
• Index

Reviews

• Flogging!: H. S. Salt’s Book The Labour Leader, 1916
• Torture in the Twentieth Century The Socialist Review, January/March 1917