KIXS FM 108 » incapacitation effect http://kixs.com The Country Leader Tue, 21 May 2013 21:37:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Are Violent Video Games Contributing To the Declining Crime Rate? http://kixs.com/are-violent-video-games-contributing-to-the-declining-crime-rate/ http://kixs.com/are-violent-video-games-contributing-to-the-declining-crime-rate/#comments Wed, 29 Jun 2011 15:00:11 +0000 Jeremy Taylor http://tsminteractive.com/?p=20641 A new academic paper suggests that the proliferation of violent videos games over the past 20 years has contributed to the more than 50 percent decrease in violent crime over that time period.

The paper’s authors analyzed published studies on the topic of violence and video games, and were able to conclude that “though there is evidence that violent video games cause aggression in a laboratory setting, there is no evidence that violent video games cause violence or crime.”

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