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      • jhawksmoor (no login)
      Posted Jun 25, 2009 1:30 PM

      I once did some research for a paper about violent movies that might apply to this. A pair of economists recently completed a study that concluded that violent movies actually prevent violent crime by attracting would-be assailants and keeping them confined in alcohol-free environments.

      Youre taking a lot of violent people off the streets and putting them inside movie theaters, said one of the authors of the study, Gordon Dahl, an economist at the University of California, San Diego. In the short run, if you take away violent movies, youre going to increase violent crime.

      Again, dunno if this applies, but it's interesting.
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