{"id":3161,"date":"2018-06-16T02:21:39","date_gmt":"2018-06-16T02:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/youth-crime-falls-as-kids-stay-inside-to-play-grand-theft-auto-instead-of-going-out-to-steal-cars\/"},"modified":"2018-06-16T02:21:39","modified_gmt":"2018-06-16T02:21:39","slug":"youth-crime-falls-as-kids-stay-inside-to-play-grand-theft-auto-instead-of-going-out-to-steal-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/youth-crime-falls-as-kids-stay-inside-to-play-grand-theft-auto-instead-of-going-out-to-steal-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth crime falls as kids stay inside to play Grand Theft Auto instead of going out to steal cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crime rates in the Australian State of New South Wales have dropped markedly in recent years and researchers think technology might be a big reason why.<\/p>\n<p>So says an Australian Institute of Criminology <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/aic.gov.au\/file\/6587\/download?token=nObWTD4Y\">study<\/a> (PDF) titled \u201cWhere have all the young offenders gone? Examining changes in offending between two New South Wales (NSW) birth cohorts\u201d published last week in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/aic.gov.au\/publications\/tandi\">Trends &amp; issues in crime and criminal justice<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p>The study notes that NSW \u201cis currently in the midst of the largest and longest decline in crime on record\u201d.<\/p>\n<div class=\"promo_article\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/regmedia.co.uk\/2015\/08\/26\/gta_v_in_game_4k.jpg?x=174&amp;y=115&amp;crop=1\" width=\"174\" height=\"115\" alt=\"GTA V in game at 4K\"\/><\/p>\n<h2 title=\"Great training ground (and don't worry about all that violence)\">Train your self-driving car AI in <em>Grand Theft Auto V<\/em> \u2013 what could possibly go wrong?<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2017\/01\/12\/gta_v_open_ai_universe\/\"><span>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p>In an attempt to explain that dip the authors looked at offenders by age and found that \u201c Comparisons between two cohorts [ one of people born in 1984 and another born in 1994] showed that, by age 21, the proportion of the population that had come into contact with the criminal justice system had halved (\u201349 per cent), with the largest declines in vehicle theft (\u201359 per cent), other property theft (\u201359 per cent) and drink-driving (\u201349 per cent).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The study concludes that technology might be responsible for the dip in a few ways, one of which is that kids today know that they\u2019re under constant video surveillance, understand that property crime is therefore likely to be observed and therefore decide the risk of detection is too high to make crime worth the effort. Technology has also made products more secure: it\u2019s just harder to steal a car these days.<\/p>\n<p>The authors also suggest that kids these days are more likely to be at home, rather than on the streets where the opportunity for crime is higher.<\/p>\n<p>The changing nature of routine activities among young people may also help to explain why the prevalence of offending has declined for such a large proportion of the population,\u201d they wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is little doubt that the routine activities of young people have changed, with less time spent in unsupervised circumstances in which opportunistic offending may be more attractive, such as \u2018hanging out\u2019 on the streets with like-minded peers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIncreased opportunities for home entertainment through the internet may have increased the prevalence of virtual interactions that limit or undermine opportunities for traditional forms of crime\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Society\u2019s not getting off easy, however, as the authors note that kids at home have \u201copportunities for new forms of crime to emerge which are less easily detected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we enter the digital age, those native to social media and online social networking may explore antisocial and criminal behaviours online which at present attract far less scrutiny from parents and authorities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPerhaps the significant declines seen in these data, and indeed the crime decline more generally, are the consequence of displacement to other forms of antisocial conduct that for now remain hidden from official statistics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The study\u2019s also optimistic that as crime rates fall, youth just aren\u2019t exposed to property crimes and therefore don\u2019t see it as an option to consider. 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For example, if typical once-only and adolescent-limited offenders\u2019 online antisocial behaviours have replaced more serious forms of juvenile offending this may be preferable to traditional offending.\u201d \u00ae<\/p>\n<p class=\"wptl btm\"><span>Sponsored:<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/go.theregister.co.uk\/tl\/1759\/shttp:\/\/www.mcubed.london\/\">Minds Mastering Machines &#8211; Call for papers now open<\/a><\/p>\n<p>READ MORE <a href=\"http:\/\/go.theregister.com\/feed\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2018\/06\/12\/youth_crime_is_way_down_and_boffins_think_tech_might_be_the_reason\/\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian criminologists say kids know they&#8217;re on CCTV so behave themselves Crime rates in the Australian State of New South Wales have dropped markedly in recent years and researchers think technology might be a big reason why.\u2026 READ MORE 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