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“We find significant reductions in crime during televised sports games implies some individuals trade off participating in criminal activity for watching sports. This lends support to theories of crime that suggest some share of criminal behavior is recreational and opportunistic. If crime is not predetermined and calculated but rather is itself a form of recreation, the drops we find are not surprising — they represent the substitution of one diversionary activity for another.” — Study reveals crime goes down during televised sport events policymic/articles/90359/new-study-reveals-a-surprising-relationship-between-televised-sports-and-crime
Posted on: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 23:23:56 +0000

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