Here's a series of quotes from Walt Hickey's You Are What you Watch, citing some similar/related research: >Between the hours of 6:00 p.m. and midnight, for ev

Here's a series of quotes from Walt Hickey's You Are What you Watch, citing some similar/related research: >Between the hours of 6:00 p.m. and midnight, for every million people watching a strongly violent movie, the number of violent crimes decreased 1.3 percent; for every million people watching a mildly violent movie, the rate declined 1.1 percent... "So, we thought, 'Oh, this is sort of like incapacitation,' if you put someone in a movie theater, they commit less assault because they can't really assault someone while they're in a movie theater." >"What happens instead is that violent crime goes down a lot from midnight to 6:00 a.m. following the movie." For every million people who saw a strongly violent movie at the cinema, the rate of violent crime went down 1.9 percent in the six hours after midnight, and for every million people watching a mildly violent movie, the rate dipped 2.1 percent. That larger decrease after midnight might be puzzling until you remember the risk factors of committing violent acts: young, male, and drunk. The scenario is easy enough to imagine: Two dudes, neither of whom have yet learned how to process strong emotions in a constructive way; one decides to see Murdersuck 4: Buckets of Blood, the other goes to the bar. They meet up after the movie at 11:00 p.m. for drinks. One has a blood-alcohol content (BAC) of 0.00, the other's is around 0.07. They both proceed to have four drinks over the next three hours. It's now 2:00 a.m., and someone walks into the bar and starts getting seriously rude to the people with whom these two guys have been talking. Our moviegoer now has a BAC of about 0.07; his buddy is clocking in at 0.14. Which dude do you think is gonna throw the punch? >All this to say that in a given year, the release of strongly violent movies has a net effect of about 52,000 assaults just not happening. Besides the human impact, that saves about $695 million in averted victimization costs, all because 4 to 8 percent of the US population saw a violent movie instead of getting drunk and committing assaults.