[sien]

There is surely something in this.

Crime is primarily carried out by young men 16-25. They now have a very interesting activity that many of them engage in. There is far less 'hanging around' with dodgy mates on streets with little to do.

The crime decline also didn't occur just in the US but all across the developed world which suggests that Roe vs Wade had less impact than Levitt and other suggest.

By the 1990s consoles had become cheap enough that many more people could afford them.

That and as someone else has said, cheap and available porn. Cheap porn was available by the 1990s in magazines and videos. Online it's now much cheaper and prevalent, but it's been there for quite a while.

[wisty]

VCR was big in the 90s (VHS was released in the US in 77, with Betamax a year before, hitting close to saturation in about 1990).