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| Title: | | Understanding the effects of violent video games on violent crime  |
| Authors: | | Cunningham, A. Scott Engelstätter, Benjamin Ward, Michael R. |
| Issue Date: | | 2011 |
| Series/Report no.: | | ZEW Discussion Papers 11-042 |
| Abstract: | | Psychological studies invariably find a positive relationship between violent video game play and aggression. However, these studies cannot account for either aggressive effects of alternative activities video game playing substitutes for or the possible selection of relatively violent people into playing violent video games. That is, they lack external validity. We investigate the relationship between the prevalence of violent video games and violent crimes. Our results are consistent with two opposing effects. First, they support the behavioral effects as in the psychological studies. Second, they suggest a larger voluntary incapacitation effect in which playing either violent or non-violent games decrease crimes. Overall, violent video games lead to decreases in violent crime. |
| Subjects: | | Video Games Violence Crime |
| JEL: | | D08 K14 L86 |
| Persistent Identifier of the first edition: | | urn:nbn:de:bsz:180-madoc-31936 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Publikationen von Forscherinnen und Forschern des ZEW ZEW Discussion Papers
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