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Submission Summary: 0 pending, 11 declined, 1 accepted (12 total, 8.33% accepted)

Crime

Submission + - Violent Games reduce levels of Crime

maroberts writes: According to this paper produced from a collaboration between the University of Texas and the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), violent video games may induce aggressive behavior, but the incapacitation effect outweighs this and produces a genuine reduction in violent crime. This paper was referenced in aBBC news story giving reasons why the US crime rates are falling (at least outside the prisons!)

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