Not so fast!
Why did this not happen already with the video game playing generation before? Were we not saying back then that teenagers and young adults were spending too much time in front of the screen.
Maybe the new generation is not so much interested in committing old fashioned crimes like burglary, robbery, or larceny-theft as the chart below suggests.
What about cyber crimes?
"One silver lining to the worrying decline in teenage socializing is a concurrent drop in the teen crime rate. Data compiled by the sociologist James Tuttle suggests that Gen Z is, by a large margin, the least criminal American generation in living memory."
The Smartphone-Induced Teen Crime Decline "Gen Z made crime rates 'crash out'"
"The correspondence between teenage socializing and crime rates is remarkable."
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