As inGermany in the U.S. is the number of serious violent crimesdeclined.A report by theBBClists the author Tom Geoghegan ten reasonswhy this positive trend continues since the 1990s. although manyexperts had expected a further rise in the crime rate through therecession in the past two yearsin the BBC's list are ten possiblecauses for the decrease in the rate of homicide and robberiesmentioned: including the election of Barack Obama for U.S. president,falling demand for Crack, better policing and investigativetechniques.At number 9 in the list also appear on video games as asurprisingly positive effect.Clinical studies had previously shownquite the opposite and showed a correlation between violent games andcontaining aggression.

The BBC other hand, refersto a recentstudy from the University of Texas and the Center for EuropeanEconomic Research from April 2011.This have to have the researchersfound that video games, whether of violent or not, during the periodstudied from 2005 to 2008 led to less rather than more crime.As areason they call the "incapacitation effect" in German: Theplayers spend more time with games, especially at home, and thisprevents that they would engage in other activities that couldpotentially lead to crime.