With apology, not with glee : caning as judicial corporal punishment in post-independence Singapore

• Main Author: Lim, Rebekah Jia Yi
• Other Authors: Scott Michael Anthony
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::History::Asia::Singapore::Social aspects; DRNTU::Humanities::History::Asia::Singapore::Politics and government
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/73616
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This research explores the history of judicial corporal punishment in Singapore from its colonial institution to the end of the millennium. It examines the caning of Michael Fay in 1994 within the context of Singapore’s post-independence trajectory. While describing chronologically the development o...