Crime rates and sedentary behavior among 4th grade Texas school children
International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2008,
5:28
PDF - http://www.ijbnpa.org/content/pdf/1479-5868-5-28.pdf
"By combining community crime and cross-sectional individual level data on indoor sedentary behavior, we found that there is an association between community crimes/sex offender rates and certain types of indoor sedentary behavior. The development of technologies in recent decades which makes supervising children easier indoors, where children are much less vulnerable to crime, may be contributing to the epidemic of childhood obesity."