You're equating the use of corporal punishment with low crime rates? You've got to be kidding. There are whole sectors of the public living in urban and rural ghettos that make liberal use of corporal punishment to no effect then.
The use of a special "tool" for punishment,as pictured in the initial post to this thread, is particularly revolting.
Oh, I agree that that is revolting. Why a parent would EVER send away for a plastic rod is beyond me.
From what I have read of the Ghettos, it isn't spanking, it's child abuse.