From: Damien Sullivan (phoenix@ugcs.caltech.edu)
Date: Tue Aug 26 2003 - 17:33:40 MDT
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 01:46:52PM -0700, Charles Hixson wrote:
> A better answer is that the population is aging. The late teens-early
> twenties are always the high crime years. As a smaller fraction of the
> population is in that age brackett, the amount of actual crime diminishes.
I think the rate of crime among teenagers has also been dropping, though,
which is indepenent of the age fraction*. Don't know about the twenties.
* Except that there are more adults per teens, now. So they're getting more
care?
-xx- Damien X-)
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