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When the stocks and pillory were first reconstructed by Colonial Williamsburg in 1936, the Public Gaol was chosen as the most likely location since debtors and common criminials were imprisoned there.

The Modern Pillory by Pim Fortuyn The subject of pedophilia is all over the newspapers. Following the Doutroux affair in Belgium, the Netherlands has its own affairs, ripe and green, from murder to ...

I was reading about Bernie Madoff’s sentence, and I started to realize the court system, both nationally and locally, seems to have options: Maximum sentence or parole. Really, there doesn’t seem to ...

WAYS of handing out punishment have often been inventive as well as cruel. Public shaming has been practised since time immemorial, and in Slovakia continued right up to the early 20th century, as we ...

The mayor was unveiling a Web site designed to humiliate johns, to put their jobs and family lives in jeopardy, and to demonstrate that the city was fighting to clean up neighborhoods afflicted by ...

That paradigm of textual parallelism has been supplanted by this recent wordplay from the New York Daily News: “Same Old Schlong & Dance.” The Yiddish slang for penis — or should I say schlang — is ...