Just becuase it aint reported doesn't mean it didn't happen!

I'm not disagreeing with the research but it's pretty loose evidence. Where's the actual proof of a correlation between popularity in video games and decrease in crime.

Otherwise I could just state that the increase in popularity in male grooming also directly contributes to the decrease in crime.

- "What were you doing on Saturday 10th May at around 10pm"
- "Moisturising... innit!"

@ Zildjian: Exactly. What this study does is essentially the mirror image of previous studies. Instead of using flimsy evidence to support the thesis that games cause violence, it does the opposite. Both are cart before the horse scenarios.

Let's get real though.

If anyone really cared about the youth of the world, they'd not be focused on tenuous, non-threats like video games but on obvious, fact based ones like: child abuse, alcoholism, pedophilia in the clergy, poverty, malnutrition, drug abuse, availability of medical care, availability of educational opportunity, and availability of decent housing. It is preposterous to focus on virtual violence when this type of real violence goes on completely ignored.

and lets not forget that in my opinion one of the BIGGEST influences is rap music....we can all say 'oh its just media' etc. but no...rap music is evil in my opinion...it gives nothing to society and on the whole creates gang culture and young men to knife up to make themseleves seem cool

Too true and I'd like to see somebody defend this macho, posturing B.S. !