Jamaica
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Jamaica is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies. At 10,990 square kilometers (4,240 sq mi), it is the third largest island—after Cuba and Hispaniola—of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean. Jamaica lies about 145 km (90 mi) south of Cuba, 191 km (119 mi) west of Hispaniola (the island containing Haiti and the Dominican Republic), and 215 km (134 mi) south-east of the Cayman Islands (a British Overseas Territory).
The indigenous Taíno peoples of the island gradually came under Spanish rule after the arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1494. Many of the indigenous people were either killed or died of diseases, after which the Spanish brought large numbers of Africans to Jamaica as slaves. The island remained a possession of Spain, under the name Santiago, until 1655, when England (part of what would become the Kingdom of Great Britain) conquered it and named it Jamaica. It became an essential part of the colonial British West Indies. Under Britain's colonial rule, Jamaica became a leading sugar exporter, with a plantation economy dependent on the continued importation of African slaves and their descendants. The British fully emancipated all slaves in 1838, and many freedmen chose to have subsistence farms rather than to work on plantations. In the 1840s, the British began using Chinese and Indian indentured laborers for plantation work. Jamaicans achieved independence from the United Kingdom on 6 August 1962.
Spanking and in Jamaica
In the 20th century, school corporal punishment fell out of fashion and was gradually banned in many countries, a trend that continues until the present day.
As of May 2008, Jamaica permits corporal punishment in schools.
Judicial corporal punishment
Judicial corporal punishment in Jamaica was inherited from the British system and was used only on males. The most commonly used implement was the tamarind switch, administered to the offender's bare buttocks. The cat o' nine tails was also sometimes used and applied to the offender's unclothed upper back. Judicial corporal punishment was typically used as a punishment for offenses like theft and sexual abuse. Its practice appeared to have declined around 1970 but was revived in 1994 before being abolished in 1998.
An official report of a United Nations Human Rights Committee hearing in 2000 contains a description of the tamarind switch in use, inflicted on a prisoner who was sentenced to 15 years in jail and ten strokes of the switch in 1994. The prisoner was ordered to remove all clothing from his lower body and was forced to lean forward across a barrel, with his genitals placed into a slot in the barrel (to prevent them from being crushed against the barrel). He was tied up in that position and beaten on the buttocks with a tamarind switch. The description fits the reenacted scene in the 1972 Jamaican crime movie The Harder They Come.
Judicial corporal punishment is no longer practiced in Jamaica, having been abolished in 1998.
Prison and reformatory corporal punishment
Prison and reformatory corporal punishment were also legal in Jamaica. The cat of nine tails and tamarind switch was used in prisons, while the cane and tawse were used in reformatories. Official regulations from 1951 stated that boys in reform schools could be punished by hand caning (maximum of three strokes per hand), or caning or strapping on the bottom over clothing (maximum of six strokes, but 12 strokes for a boy over 12). Girls could also receive up to three strokes on each hand, but only up to the age of 14.
Both prison and reformatory corporal punishment are now banned in Jamaica.
School corporal punishment
School corporal punishment is still permitted in Jamaica, as the Education Act states that teachers may administer "reasonable corporal punishment." However, teachers are advised against using it and urged to leave corporal punishment to school principals.
Reports suggest that both the cane and the strap are widely used in schools, and they are referred to locally as "flogging" or "licks." However, their use has also declined to the point where some people thought they had been banned and mistakenly called for their reimplementation.
Spanking Art in Jamaica
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Prostitution in Jamaica
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External links
- More information is available at [ Wikipedia:Jamaica ]
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