I think it depends a little bit on one's philosophical orientation. There's a train of thinking that says fundamentally all crime is theft, that if somebody steals from me, they steal from me, and I experience that theft. If somebody assaults me, I lose some level of physical integrity and sense of security. If somebody is killed, there is a loss of life, and productivity and interaction thereon. A strong argument can be made that, while we certainly see a lot of evolutions in the modalities by which people can commit crimes, at the core, crime is still pretty much the same set of circumstances that we've dealt with traditionally in terms of theft and robbery, assault and sex crimes, and things of that nature. The modalities and specifics may differ, but fundamentally an argument can be made that it's still the same crime problems we've traditionally had.
On February 7th, 2013. See this statement in context.