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http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/photos/uncategorized/2008/04/08/violencegraph.jpg http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/photos/uncategorized/2008/... Very neatly

• anigbrowl 13y ago
  Except that there were plenty of videogames in the 80s, when crime was still going up...which is a glaring hole in the theory. Sure, the graph shows that claims of videogames leading to increased violence are probably bogus, but there's no evidence that they reduce violence either.
  • contingencies 13y ago
    Alternate theory: the rise of ecstasy?
    • anigbrowl 13y ago
      My money's on the environmental lead theory. I think the rise of ecstacy is too marginal to account for the scale of the change. But that's just a hunch.
• cinquemb 13y ago
  Or maybe more people were being locked up… http://thumbnails.visually.netdna-cdn.com/crime-in-america_5029157dc9cdf.jpg http://thumbnails.visually.netdna-cdn.com/crime-in-america_5...