There's the complication that once a set of people have the power to inflict violence on others, they will be abuses. So how many innocent people is ok to cane? Checks and balances could be put in place to lower the innocent caning rate, but these will be expensive and massively opposed by those doing the abuses which leads to them be performative and ineffective. We see this with policing generally. There are also the exempt classes which has enough status to never have to worry about being caned. So then only lower status people are getting caned, and likely with the highest innocent rate as they have the least power to defend their rights. It's a path to dystopia.