We recently rejected the hypothesis that increases in cybercrime may have caused the international crime drop. Critics subsequently argued that offenders switched from physical crime to cybercrime in recent years, and that lifestyle changes due to ‘leisure IT’ may have caused the international crime drop. Here we explain how the critics misrepresented our argument and do not appear to introduce anything new.

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进一步拒绝网络犯罪假说

我们最近拒绝了网络犯罪数量增加可能导致国际犯罪率下降的假说。评论家随后辩称，犯罪者近年来已从实体犯罪转变为网络犯罪，并且由于“休闲IT”导致生活方式的改变可能导致国际犯罪率下降。在这里，我们解释了批评家如何歪曲我们的论点，并且似乎没有引入任何新的东西。