Of course, not everyone suffered such levels of indignity during that era of high conservatism. The Vineland Times Journal reported the boys bent over a desk as 'each father moved up behind his son and the smack of open hand against rump resounded through the courtroom.'
In April 1963, for example, an Atlantic City judge sentenced three teenage boys to a public spanking after they admitted to larceny and receiving stolen goods. No-nonsense South Jersey municipal judges administered law as they saw fit during the 1950s and '60s.
