Millennials commit fewer crimes than boomers & Gen X, study finds

[Mike Hoxbig]

They've had the whole world handed to them on a plate. What need is there to commit crimes?

You're confusing millennials with boomers.

Millennials reached adulthood around the turn of the millennium. Boomers were born during that period...

 

[¯\_(ツ)_/¯]

Not sure 40 is old enough to go back into diapers.

Possible. ANCYL.

And don't you argue with me - I'm one of the most dangerous group!

 

[¯\_(ツ)_/¯]

Be patient. Boomer brains aren’t what they used to be.

You say?

Spoiler

 

[3WA]

You say?

Spoiler

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/laughs politely at boomer joke

 

[PoppieChoffel]

Crime is probably too much effort.

One thousand percent this

 

[Azbubu]

Boomers had it so hard. Being able to afford a big house, nice car and supporting a family of 5 on a postman’s salary.

 

[noxibox]

It's called shifting the goalposts.
In my grandfather's day it was illegal to bunk school.

Your grandfather was in school during the 80s?

They've had the whole world handed to them on a plate. What need is there to commit crimes?

Makes you wonder then why there was so much crime when baby boomers were in their youth?

 

[Moosedrool]

Millennials are between 25 - 40. Most people moaning about millennials are millennials which is why it's funny.

 

[NarrowBandFtw]

Crime is probably too much effort.

also takes precious Facebook / Insta / Twitter / TikTok etc time out of your day to go and commit a crime

 

[Moto Guzzi]

Researchers in Texas have found that, like Generation X before them, millennials commit fewer crimes than their forefathers. The scientists also propose that a shift in criminal justice thinking may yield even better results.

In their study, ‘How Cohorts Changed Crime Rates, 1980–2016’, the team at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas in Austin found that, while crime rates overall are down since 1990, crime reduction efforts accounted for less than 50% of the drop in crime since 1990 and almost none since 2000.

In other words, criminal justice policy wasn’t actually moving the needle on crime, suggesting that other factors were at play in the decline of crime over time.

For example, according to national crime statistics data, baby boomers, the generation born between 1946 and 1964, were found to be the most criminally active in modern history. Generation X (1965-1980) committed fewer crimes and now, following the trend, millennials also commit fewer crimes than their predecessors.

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Which type of crime direction, like from the top down, or from the bottom up-?

Gen Z is passive and follow digital trends gen X created, power off they halt in their tracks.

 

[NarrowBandFtw]

Millennials are between 25 - 40. Most people moaning about millennials are millennials which is why it's funny.

apparently I'm a xennial, you can be one too:

Are you a xennial? Take the quiz

The sound of dial-up internet haunts your nightmares and you remember when floppy disks were actually floppy. Was your first crush called Corey? Perhaps you were born between 1977 and 1983

www.theguardian.com

anything to not be associated with the millennial bs

 

[pinball wizard]

Not sure 40 is old enough to go back into diapers.

I had some dodgy curry a while back. Coulda used a diaper.

 

[supersunbird]

apparently I'm a xennial, you can be one too:

Are you a xennial? Take the quiz

The sound of dial-up internet haunts your nightmares and you remember when floppy disks were actually floppy. Was your first crush called Corey? Perhaps you were born between 1977 and 1983

www.theguardian.com

anything to not be associated with the millennial bs

Xennial
You are a true xennial. Well done. You understand modern technology but are not so emotionally needy as to need constant validation from strangers you will never meet.

Schweet!

 

[Moosedrool]

apparently I'm a xennial, you can be one too:

Are you a xennial? Take the quiz

The sound of dial-up internet haunts your nightmares and you remember when floppy disks were actually floppy. Was your first crush called Corey? Perhaps you were born between 1977 and 1983

www.theguardian.com

anything to not be associated with the millennial bs

And no I didn't have new kids on the block mech and if you did you are even worse than a ****en millennial.

Boomers had it so hard. Being able to afford a big house, nice car and supporting a family of 5 on a postman’s salary.

Remember when they said you should at less avocado on toast? I'm sure a postman's salary today can finance that if he cuts down on the avacodo and toast.

 

[Sideshow Bob]

Boomers had it so hard. Being able to afford a big house, nice car and supporting a family of 5 on a postman’s salary.

Most of my colleagues have all this (80% with 2 kids, 20% with 3 kids if I recollect vaguely) and all these are definitely post-boomers. Most of them have 1000sq.m + stands which is pretty big for a townhouse resident like me.

p.s. Of course not postman's salary so I get your point. If I have to guess, about 60% of these households are double income earners.

 

[jack_spratt]

So crime should be going down on the Cape Flats.

 

[supersunbird]

So crime should be going down on the Cape Flats.

Only if the millennials there are having the same general living standards as US millennials.

 

[Hemi300c]

Looking at all the old cvnts in government lining their pockets it's probably true in SA with compliments of the anc and cadres

 

[Azbubu]

Most of my colleagues have all this (80% with 2 kids, 20% with 3 kids if I recollect vaguely) and all these are definitely post-boomers. Most of them have 1000sq.m + stands which is pretty big for a townhouse resident like me.

p.s. Of course not postman's salary so I get your point. If I have to guess, about 60% of these households are double income earners.

Don’t forget the holiday homes on the coast. They speak of it as if it’s such a common thing that everyone should have.

 

[Lupus]

Millennials are between 25 - 40. Most people moaning about millennials are millennials which is why it's funny.

Yup it is funny.