Editing Humiliation (section)

== Punishments and interrogation tactics ==
[[File:Garotte - Excerpt from Pedro Berruguete - Saint Dominic Presiding over an Auto-da-fe.jpg|thumb|right|[[Nontrinitarianism|Non-trinitarian]] [[Cathars]] wearing [[loincloth]]s being burnt at the stake in an ''[[auto-da-fé]]'' ({{circa|1495}}, with [[garrote]] and [[phallus]]), presided over by [[Saint Dominic]], oil on panel by [[Pedro Berruguete]].]]
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1971-041-10, Paris, der Kollaboration beschuldigte Französinnen.jpg|thumb|left|alt=photograph|Paris 1944: Women accused of [[Collaboration with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy|collaboration with Nazis]] are paraded through the streets barefoot, shaved, and with [[swastika]] burn marks on their faces.]]

Humiliation of one person by another (the humiliator) is often used as a way of asserting power over them, and is a common form of [[oppression]] or [[abuse]] used in a [[Police abuse|police]], military, or [[Prisoner abuse|prison]] context during legal interrogations or illegal [[torture]] sessions. Many now-obsolete public [[punishment]]s were deliberately designed to be humiliating, e.g. [[tarring and feathering]] lawbreakers, [[pillory]], "[[mark of shame]]" ([[social stigma|stigma]]) as a means of "making an example" of a person and presenting a deterrent to others. Some practices, such as tarring and feathering, became tools of unofficial mob justice. In folk customs such as the English skimmington rides and rough music (and their continental equivalents, such as the French [[Charivari]]), dramatic public demonstrations of moral disapproval were enacted to humiliate [[Norm (social)|transgressors]] and drive them out of the community.<ref name="Thompson1992">{{Cite journal | last1 = Thompson | first1 = E. P. | author-link = E. P. Thompson | doi = 10.1080/0015587X.1992.9715826 | title = Rough Music Reconsidered | journal = Folklore | volume = 103 | pages = 3–26 | year = 1992 | url = http://www.csulb.edu/~ssayeghc/theory/wintertheory/rough%20music.pdf | access-date = 14 July 2012 | archive-date = 13 February 2020 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200213200248/http://web.csulb.edu/~ssayeghc/theory/wintertheory/rough%20music.pdf | url-status = live }}</ref>

Some U.S. states have experimented with humiliating or [[shaming]] lawbreakers by publishing their names and indicating their offense (e.g., with soliciting prostitutes or drinking and driving). In 2010, there was public outcry about reports showing police in [[Dongguan]] and [[Guangdong]] in China leading a parade of arrested prostitutes for the purpose of humiliating them. The national [[Ministry of Public Security of the People's Republic of China|Ministry of Public Security]] reprimanded the local police and affirmed that such punishments are not allowed.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://english.cntv.cn/program/china24/20100727/100816.shtml|title=Prostitute humiliation dents police image|first=Ning|last=Zhang|date=27 July 2010|access-date=19 January 2012|publisher=[[China Network Television]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121224032845/http://english.cntv.cn/program/china24/20100727/100816.shtml|archive-date=24 December 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>