I don’t know, one of the things I attribute to reduction in crime over the past couple of decades is a steady increase in things for teenagers to do; and after they get past the age where juvenile delinquency “Catches On” the likelihood that they will choose a life of crime is greatly reduced. Consider videogames as one example of this, every hour that teenagers are sitting at home playing videogames is an hour where their parents know where they are; and the child is unlikely to be committing any crime at the same time. Between sports, music lessons, tutoring, television, videogames, the internet and countless other activities and distractions that children have today the average teenager probably doesn’t have the time to engage in being a hoodlum today.







