Do violent video games cause an increase in violent crimes?

This is something I will come back to once time permits. I do want to highlight a paper I perused recently that examines the question of whether or not video games with violent and mature content increase violent crime. Basically, the authors find no such link. I am not surprised. It's one thing to make the claim that there may be a link between violent video games and mild aggression in the lab, and there has been and will continue to be some conversation about what those findings in the aggregate mean. It's quite a leap of faith to make sweeping statements about that body of research providing evidence that violent video games are responsible for real life violence, and it's a leap of faith I am not willing to make given the dearth of evidence.