What’s behind the staggering drop in the murder rate? No one knows for sure.
What’s behind the staggering drop in the murder rate? No one knows for sure.
- January 22, 2026
- Emily Owens, criminology, law and society and CPIP affiliate, The New York Times, Jan. 22, 2026
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Emily Owens, a University of California, Irvine professor who studies how policy affects crime, said that while violence was declining, the number of people reporting that they were victims of cybercrime had soared, causing her to wonder if crime that used to happen on the street was moving online. … “The way that people interact with each other has been changing dramatically and becoming much less face-to-face, which is sort of a requirement for violence, right?” she said.
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