Does more spanking = less crime and delinquency?

I think we've all seen this:

It basically says that if you don't spank your kids the only other alternative is that they run hog wild! 

Spanking = good parenting and good kids = safe world. 
Not spanking = bad parenting and bad kids = crime!!

Right?

Either you spank...and raise good productive citizens...OR...if you don't spank...you raise brats who have no self control and could very well end up criminals!!!

Right?

I think we've all heard it, and, if you're someone who sees spanking as a valuable parenting tool...you believe it. And, because spanking does give immediate results, I understand why you believe that. I do. But, we have to remember that we're dealing with moral human beings...and just because we do something to them and they give us an "immediate" response...that doesn't tell us what's necessarily actually going on on the inside of them, does it? The only way to tell how spanking really affects kids is to look at the big picture. You have to look at how many in your society spank...and then look at society at large and see how the whole society is doing.

Well...there are people out there who like gathering data. I'm thankful for those people because I'm a person who likes seeing the data they collect...

Doing a search on countries and the % of their population that is incarcerated I found many websites with the same data. Below is a chart I found on one of those sites that has the data laid out quite nicely, I think, showing how many people per 100,000 of the population that are in jail...So, I copied/pasted it here...

And...I added a little detail to the chart...

I also did searches on countries in the world...in which using hitting/spanking/corporal punishment as a parenting tool...is banned and highlighted those countries in yellow.

According to the above graphic...the countries in the top spots for having the most % of their populations in jail are going to be countries in which spanking is banned! Because with more of "this" (spanking) there'd be less of "this" (delinquents/crime). Therefore, countries where spanking is banned...crime should be rampant.

According to a wide variety of sources I find...somewhere around 90% of US parents spank...

So, according to that graphic...the US should be pretty far down on the scale with crime rates well below the countries in which spanking is banned...because more spanking = less crime and if we have 90% of our population spanking...that's almost our whole society...

Here is what the information shows...

Rank	Country (or dependent territory) Countries not in yellow = spanking is not banned Yellow = country in which spanking is banned	Prisoners per 100,000 population
1	United States of America	716
2	St. Kitts and Nevis	649
3	Seychelles	641
4	Virgin Islands (USA)	539
5	Rwanda	527
6	Georgia	514
7	Cuba	510
8	Russian Federation	502
9	Anguilla (United Kingdom)	480
10	Virgin Islands (United Kingdom)	460c
11	Belarus	438
12	El Salvador	425
13	Bermuda (United Kingdom)	417
14	Azerbaijan	407
14	Belize	407
16	Grenada	402
17	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	389
18	Antigua and Barbuda	387
19	Cayman Islands (United Kingdom)	385
20	Barbados	377
21	Bahamas	371
22	St. Maarten (Netherlands)	369
23	Panama	366
24	Dominica	356
25	Palau	348
26	Greenland (Denmark)	340
27	Thailand	337
28	Ukraine	334
29	Iran	333
30	Curaçao (Netherlands)	331
31	Guam (USA)	328
32	Kazakhstan	316
33	Costa Rica	314
33	Lithuania	314
33	Swaziland	314c
36	St. Lucia	313
37	Maldives	311c
38	South Africa	310
39	Latvia	304
40	Puerto Rico (USA)	303
41	French Guiana/Guyane (France)	297c
42	Chile	285
43	Taiwan	282
44	Mongolia	280
45	Uruguay	279
46	Botswana	267
47	Brazil	260
47	Guyana	260
49	Trinidad and Tobago	259
50	Estonia	252
51	Cape Verde (Cabo Verde)	246
52	Gibraltar (United Kingdom)	238
52	United Arab Emirates	238
54	Singapore	237
55	Israel	236
56	Colombia	235
57	Aruba (Netherlands)	228
58	Samoa (formerly Western Samoa)	227
59	Turkmenistan	224
60	Poland	220
61	Czech Republic	218
61	Montenegro	218
63	Martinique (France)	217
64	Dominican Republic	210
65	Mexico	206
66	Slovakia	203
67	Morocco	199
68	American Samoa (USA)	198
68	Tunisia	198
70	Gabon	196
71	New Zealand	194
72	Namibia	191
72	Suriname	191
74	Peru	190
75	Macau (China)	186
76	Moldova (Republic of)	183
77	Mauritius	182
78	Kyrgyzstan	181
79	Hungary	173
79	Saudi Arabia	173
81	Guernsey (United Kingdom)	172
82	New Caledonia (France)	171
83	Guadeloupe (France)	169
84	Turkey	168
85	Jersey (United Kingdom)	167
86	Jamaica	163
87	Reunion (France)	161
88	Honduras	159
89	Algeria	156
89	Fiji	156
91	Armenia	155
92	Serbia	154
92	United Kingdom:  England &  Wales	154
94	French Polynesia (France)	152
94	Uzbekistan	152c
96	Tonga	151
96	United Kingdom: Scotland	151
98	Spain	150
99	Romania	149
99	Venezuela	149
101	Albania	148
102	Bulgaria	146
103	Argentina	145
104	Northern Mariana Islands (USA)	142
105	Nauru	139
106	Malta	138
107	Kuwait	137
108	Bahrain	136
108	Ethiopia	136
110	Bhutan	135
111	Hong Kong (China)	132
112	Tajikistan	130
113	Australia	129
114	Isle of Man (United Kingdom)	127
114	Portugal	127
114	Vietnam	127
117	Kenya	126
117	Malaysia	126
117	Zambia	126c
120	Luxembourg	124
121	Kiribati	122
121	Nicaragua	122c
123	China	121 or 170[2]
123	Zimbabwe	121c
125	Myanmar (formerly Burma)	120
125	Tuvalu	120
127	Cameroon	119
128	Burundi	118
128	Lebanon	118
130	Croatia	115
130	Iraq	115
132	Canada	114
133	Bolivia	112
133	Cyprus (Republic of)	112
133	Macedonia (former Yugoslav Republic of)	112
136	Greece	111
136	Sao Tome e Principe	111
138	Philippines	110
139	Cook Islands (New Zealand)	109
139	Italy	109
141	Lesotho	107
142	Brunei Darussalam	105
143	Austria	104
143	Cambodia	104
143	Mayotte (France)	104
146	France	102
147	Angola	100
147	Belgium	100
147	Sri Lanka	100
150	Paraguay	97
151	Uganda	96
151	United Kingdom: Northern Ireland	96
153	Ireland	95
154	Jordan	95
154	Madagascar	95
156	Republic of Korea	92
157	South Sudan	89c
158	Guatemala	87
158	Netherlands	87
160	Ecuador	86
161	Micronesia, Federated States of	85
162	Tanzania	84
163	Djibouti	83
163	Germany	83
165	Egypt	80c
166	Bosnia and Herzegovina: Federation	77
167	Switzerland	76
168	Benin	75
168	Bosnia and Herzegovina: Republika Srpska	75
170	Afghanistan	74
170	Denmark (banned spanking in 1997)	74
170	Malawi	74
173	Andorra	73
173	Norway (banned spanking in 1987)	73
173	Vanuatu	73
176	Haiti	72
177	Sweden (banned spanking in 1979)	70
178	Laos	69
178	Mozambique	69
180	Kosovo/Kosova	66c
181	Marshall Islands	64
181	Slovenia	64
183	Oman	61
183	Togo	61
185	Qatar	60c
186	Finland (banned spanking in 1983)	59
187	Indonesia	58
187	Papua New Guinea	58
187	Syria	58
190	Senegal	57
191	Cote d'Ivoire	56
191	Gambia	56c
191	Sudan	56c
194	Japan	55
195	Ghana	54
196	Libya	49
197	Yemen	48
198	Iceland	47
198	Mauritania	47
198	Solomon Islands	47
201	Nepal	45c
202	Niger	43c
203	Bangladesh	42
203	Sierra Leone	42
205	Chad	41
205	Guinea Bissau	41
207	Pakistan	40
208	Liberia	39
208	Republic of Guinea	39c
210	Mali	36
211	Monaco	34
212	Congo (Brazzaville)	33c
212	Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire)	33c
214	Nigeria	31
215	India	30
215	Liechtenstein	30
217	Burkina Faso	28
218	Timor-Leste (formerly East Timor)	22
219	Faeroe Islands (Denmark)	21
220	Central African Republic	19
220	Comoros	19c
221	San Marino	3[3]

The first time one of the non-spanking countries even appears on the chart is #30...with a rate of 331 incarcerated people per 100,000 of the population. That is less than half of the # of people the 90% spanking USA has in jail. Less than half.

And, one interesting and noteworthy country in this list...for Christians to take notice of...is Israel...Israel is the country full of the people who are direct descendants of the people who wrote the Bible who would best comprehend the cultural and social things and history in the Bible. In Israel...they don't use "English" Bibles...transliterated (as in not translated...transliterated) NIV's written on an American 8th grade reading level. No. They still use some of the Bible's original languages and still use the Old Testament. 

The country that has the best ability to comprehend the meaning of the Old Testament verses of "the Biblical rod"...has spanking banned...

So, you have a choice. You can continue to choose to believe something...that's not true. Or you can choose to change. You spank your kids for continuing to do the same wrong thing over and over? Even after, "I told you not to do that! You know better!" they do it again and you punish them for that, right? So, what are you going to do now that you know better?

According to the chart the worlds where kids were never spanked...
That world is 50% less crime ridden than the USA...
What are you afraid of?

May 26, 2013

I got an idea of something to do to that graphic in the beginning last night and did it...and posted it on a page I admin on Facebook, "I Love Kids."

I believe this is MUCH MORE accurate...
And, actually, science would agree with me...

LINKS TO OTHER ARTICLES ON 

THE LINK BETWEEN SPANKING AND CRIME

"Does Outlawing Spanking Lower the Crime Rate Years Later?"

"Numerous studies over the years have found that children who are spanked are more likely to become teens and then adults who are violent. They are also more prone to suffer with psychological problems, abuse drugs and alcohol, and own firearms, some studies have found."

Spanking and Crime Rates

"Mr Pfeiffer has found a correlation between declining rates of children being spanked (or otherwise punished physically) and subsequent decreases in violent crime. In Germany, for example, it used to be common until well into the last century to discipline kids in this way. Not doing so almost amounted to being negligent. But then parents and teachers gradually stopped beating children.

When Mr Pfeiffer’s team polled adult Germans in 1992, 26% answered that they had been raised without any physical punishment at all. In the latest poll, soon to be released, that ratio has gone up to two thirds.

People who as children experienced the “powerlessness” of frequent spankings report a disproportionately greater interest later in life to own guns, Mr Pfeiffer says. They also demand more draconian prison sentences, including the death penalty, for convicted criminals. And they seem more prone to violence themselves. In a study of 45,000 ninth-graders Mr Pfeiffer conducted in 2007-08, those kids who had been beaten by their parents were five times as likely to commit repeated crimes or to use cannabis, and missed school four times more frequently for ten days a year or more."

http://www.economist.com/blogs/charlemagne/2013/07/spanking-and-crime-rates