Thursday, September 15, 2011

Domestic Violence Against Women Debated in Connecticut - 1889


FULL TEXT: At a recent meeting of experts in criminology Judge Simeon E. Baldwin of the supreme court of Connecticut said: “I do not hesitate to avow my conviction that whipping would often furnish a mode of punishment far more appropriate than fine or imprisonment for minor offenses and a useful addition to imprisonment for greater ones. While holding criminal terms of the superior court hate more than once had occasion to sentence culprits to confinement in jail, whose case would have been, in my opinion, better fitted by some form of punishment shorter in duration and sharper in pain.

“No sentence to a county jail is greatly dreaded by a hardened criminal. It gives him in most cases an assurance of better housing and of better food than he is in the habit or gaining by any other mode of exertion. On the other hand, whipping is dreaded by every one, man or child. We shrink from it first and most because it hurts. It is no degradation to a boy to be whipped by his father, or by his master at school. That is not his objection to it. He feels that it is a reasonable and natural consequence off misdoing, and leaves him better rather than worse. The sailor and the soldier, until recent years, met it in the same way and with no loss of spirit or of loyalty to their flag. Custom for them had disassociated it from disgrace. It was simply retribution. Among civilians, however, to the grown man it is and always was a mark of degradation in the eyes of the community. But as a penalty for, crime it is a consequence of degradation rather than a cause of it. It was the crime that really degraded. Governor Buckingham of Connecticut once stated that no white man had ever been whipped twice under a judicial sentence in that state There have been many who have gone back to jail 10 and 20 times.”

Rev. Phoebe Hanaford said: “The whipping post is the best thing for wife beaters. Justice and mercy both require it. If a man is fined his family suffers the loss of so much money. If he is imprisoned the family will be deprived of the wages which he might be able to earn. Then, again, the fear of bodily pain will deter him from abusing his wife more than the thought of going to jail. The whipping should not be a public spectacle. Publicity would add nothing to the punishment of the wife beater.

[“The Whipping Post. – Experts Declare That It is a Deterrent to Crime.” Akron Daily Democrat (Oh.), Jun. 10, 1899, p. 7]

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• You have been told that before the rise of feminism in the 1960s that domestic violence against women was tolerated by society as acceptable behavior and was not taken seriously by police and the courts.

You have been lied to. The people who told you these lies were paid to tell them you. In most cases you paid your own money (taxes and tuition fees) to be lied to.

Here is one of countless pieces of evidence that demonstrate the truth.

• To see more eloquent, vivid evidence proving the lie and giving you the truth, see:


19th Century Intolerance Towards Domestic Violence

Treatment of Domestic Violence Against Women Before 1960this post collects cases classified by the form of punishment or sentencing (whether judicial or through community action)

No, the claim that laws created by males were for the benefit of males is false. Yes, the "Rule of Thumb" myth has been proven to be a marxist-feminist hoax, taking an ancient English common historical notation published in the 18th century and extrapolating it into unsupported claims that 18th and 20th century United States communities, courts and legislatures (laws on the books) were in agreement with the18th century historical notation (Blackstone).

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“[O]nly since the 1970s has the criminal justice system begun to treat domestic violence as a serious crime, not as a private family matter.”

From the entry: “Domestic Violence” on encyclopedia.com

This claim has been proven to be false.

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• You have been told that before the rise of feminism in the 1960s that domestic violence against women was tolerated by society as acceptable behavior and was not taken seriously by police and the courts.

You have been lied to. The people who told you these lies were paid to tell them you. In most cases you paid your own money (taxes and tuition fees) to be led to.

Here is one of countless pieces of evidence that demonstrate the truth.

• To see more eloquent, vivid evidence proving the lie and giving you the truth, see:


19th Century Intolerance Towards Domestic Violence 

Treatment of Domestic Violence Against Women Before 1960  -- this post collects cases classified by the form of punishment or sentencing (whether judicial or through community action)


No, the claim that laws created by males were for the benefit of males is false. Yes, the "Rule of Thumb" myth has been proven to be a marxist-feminist hoax, taking an ancient English common historical notation published in the 18th century and extrapolating it into unsupported claims that 18th and 20th century United States communities, courts and legislatures (laws on the books) were in agreement with the18th century historical notation (Blackstone).

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“[O]nly since the 1970s has the criminal justice system begun to treat domestic violence as a serious crime, not as a private family matter.”

From the entry: “Domestic Violence” on encyclopedia.com

This claim has been proven to be false.

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