Impact of the introduction of television on crime in the United States: Empirical findings and theoretical implications

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doi:10.1037/0022-3514.42.3.461. [Abstract read]: A NATURAL EXPERIMENT, NOT A MANIPULATION, and described as such in the article. An interrupted time-series design with switching replications exploiting the Federal Communications Commission freeze on new broadcast licences from 1949 to 1952, which gave some American communities television years before others. No consistent effect on violent crime, burglary or car theft; the one robust result was a rise in larceny theft, which the authors attribute to relative deprivation rather than imitation. Hennigan first author.