Public humiliation
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Public humiliation or public shaming is a form of punishment whose main feature is dishonoring or disgracing a person, usually an offender or a prisoner, especially in a public place. It was regularly
South Korean gang leader Lee Jung-jae being shame-paraded by Park Chung Hee's military regime (1961).
Paris, 1944: French women accused of collaboration with Nazis had their heads shaved and were paraded through the streets barefoot.
Public foot whipping in Iran
Public flogging in Brazil, Jean-Baptiste Debret
Pillory
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The pillory is a device made of a wooden or metal framework erected on a post, with holes for securing the head and hands, used during the medieval and renaissance periods for punishment by public hum
Public humiliation
…such as a yoke or public stocks. In the Low Countries, the schandstoel ("Chair of shame"), the kaak or schandpaal ("pole of shame", a simple type of pillory), the draaikooi were customary for adulteresses, and the schopstoel, a scaffolding from which one is kicked off to land in mud and dirt. In the more…
Daniel Defoe in the Pillory (Eyre Crowe, 1862)
The 17th-century perjurer Titus Oates in a pillory
Stone pillory from the 18th century preserved in situ in Mespelare, Belgium. It is decorated with the coat of arms of the Goubau family, who at the time were the lords of the village.
The pillory at Charing Cross in London, c. 1808