According to new research from Lawrence Kutner and Cheryl Olson, kids who don't play video games at all are at greater risk to get into trouble. GameDaily has the story.
While anti-game activists and politicians have continually tried to tie violent video games to some of the nation's most despicable acts of real-life violence (including the recent Virgina Tech tragedy), Kutner and Olson, whose research was funded with $1.5 million by the U.S. Dept. of Justice, found after surveying around 1,300 kids in multiple states that "there is absolutely no evidence" that playing violent video games will turn kids into criminals.
"If you look at violent crime in the U.S. over the past 20 years among teenagers, it's gone down and gone down significantly, and if you look at video game play, it's gone up significantly," said Kutner.
