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So, keeping in context of my original comment, do you have statistics for how many 60-year-old women are engaged in teenage delinquency?

Keep in mind that the period you're talking about in the US (1993+) is around the start of hysterical anti-crime politicking, with a soaring incarceration rate, and heavily increased funding for policing.

Or for something more relevant to 60-year-old women in the 90s, how about it being more socially acceptable to leave an abusive husband? Or better social support services than previously?

There's a lot of different things that affect crime - I'm not saying in the slightest that any one thing is responsible for crime or lack thereof.




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