Public humiliation

South Korean gang leader Lee Jung-jae being shame-paraded by Park Chung Hee's military regime (1961).

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 used as a form of judicially sanctioned punishment in previous centuries, and is still practiced by different means in the modern era.

In the United States, it was a common punishment from the beginning of European colonization through the 19th century. It fell out of common use in the 20th century, though it has seen a revival starting in the 1990s.[1] With the rise of the social media, public shaming moved to the digital sphere, exposing and humiliating people daily, sometimes without their knowledge. [2]

  1. ^ Deardorff, Julie (April 20, 2000). "Shame Returns As Punishment".
  2. ^ Pundak, Chen; Steinhart, Yael; Goldenberg, Jacob (July 2, 2021). "Nonmaleficence in Shaming: The Ethical Dilemma Underlying Participation in Online Public Shaming". Journal of Consumer Psychology. 31 (3): 478–500. doi:10.1002/jcpy.1227 – via CrossRef.

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