There’s always someone or something to blame for crime rate rises in younger generations, whether it be music that incites violence, movies or everybody’s favourite scapegoat—video games. The latest crime statistics have shown an increase in crime by 8.1 per cent in Victoria with double digit percentage increases in theft, drug, and weapons offences.

The Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Graham Ashton said the statistics have shown a significant trend of youth crime, with offenders aged from 12 until their late teens, labelling it as the “Grand Theft Auto generation”.

Although making a massive generalisation of the youth, the statistics showed that there hasn’t been an increase in youth offenders, but the people that are offenders are committing more crimes. Chief Commissioner Ashton said that the crime rate would likely “get worse before it gets better”.

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