“I imagine caning helps with quite a number of infractions...”
Yes, it’s much more effective, cheaper with almost no recidivism.
Compare a bit of caning to the disaster we have here, where we arrest people for even major infractions, pay their lawyers (and ours), let them go, do the same thing the next day or week...and rinse and repeat. So our system allows the perps to do the beating of innocent people and worse.
And if you put them in jail, then the expenses get even higher.
A bit of corporal punishment is much more effective and cheaper. It doesn’t have to be torture, just painful and embarrassing enough to keep them from doing it again.
The ‘disaster’ we have here, wasn’t here a few decades ago. And we didn’t have caning then, either.
I think you are confusing some things here and assuming that only corporal punishment, instead of maintaining sensible laws and regulations, can solve the problems we have.
That’s the kind of screwy, reactionary ‘thinking’ that leads to things like the rise of Nazism and Communist revolutions.
Frankly, you scare me.