Editing Urban legend (section)

===Crime===
As with traditional urban legends, many internet [[rumor]]s are about crimes or crime waves – either fictional or based on real events that have been largely exaggerated.<ref>Pamela Donovan, No Way of Knowing: Crime, Urban Legends, and the Internet (Psychology Press, 2004).</ref><ref>Pamela Donovan, ''Crime legends in a new medium: Fact, fiction and loss of authority'', Theoretical Criminology; vol. 6 no. 2; May 2002; pp. 189–215.</ref><ref>{{cite book | last1 = Zimring |first1 = Franklin E. |author-link1 = Franklin E. Zimring |editor-last1 = Sprott |editor-first1 = Jane B. |editor-last2 = Doob |editor-first2 = Anthony N. |editor-link2 = Anthony Doob |chapter = Foreword |title = Justice for Girls?: Stability and Change in the Youth Justice Systems of the United States and Canada |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=u4FpYMIUnoAC |series = Adolescent Development and Legal Policy |date = 15 December 2009 |location = Chicago |publisher  = University of Chicago Press |publication-date = 2009 |page = viii |isbn  = 9780226770062 |access-date = 1 March 2022 |quote = Although isolated and misleading statistical sound bites make the news, the long-term stability of low rates of serious crime by females is a rule with very few exceptions.  As of 2008, the girl crime wave is properly classified as an urban legend.}}</ref> Such stories can be problematic, both because they purport to be relevant modern news and because they do not follow the typical patterns of urban legends.<ref>{{Cite book|title= No Way of Knowing Crime, Urban Legends, and the Internet|last =Donovan|first= Pamela|publisher= Routledge|year= 2004|isbn= 0203507797|location= Great Britain |pages= 2–3}}</ref>