> [wonder if this is Iraq war blowback?]
>
> FBI reports biggest violent crime jump in 15 years
> By James Vicini
> 11 minutes ago
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Dane Archer's actually done some interesting archival research on this. During the 20th century, murder rates are significantly higher when a country is at war or immediately following wartime. Moreover, this increase cannot simply be due to returning veterans, because the murder rate also increases among women and age groups that could not have served in the war. Archer's argument is that the legitimate violence conducted by the state provides a ubiquitous role model for aggression in everyday life.
Miles