Looking at crime rate charts around the world, and for some reason, it seems no matter where the continent or government, there seems to be a rise in crime especially around the 1980s or 1990s in so many different countries around the world whether it be in places like Japan, the US, Brazil, Germany, the UK, or South Africa (these are just some countries but there are many others) that all seem to have crime spike or crime start increasing during those particular decades, even if said places have different definition of what a “crime” is. Is there any explanation for this? Don’t want to sound like a tinfoil hat type of person, but why is this trend common in so many places and in a similar time frame?
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