Re: crime rate during Taliban era
This seems to be the norm in Afghan society... Even in the liberal 70's, most of the women in wester style clothing were of the educated city dwellers of Kabul, while women in the villages were very conservative... There is a famous National Geographics Magazine which I have from 1970's, in which you see women wearing knee length skirts!
Sadly, Most of the educated elites were killed, kicked out, or ran of to Europe, only to be replaced by the uneducated and consevative village dwellers, many of whom I would suppose were also strongly involved in the mujahideen resistance.
So the uneducated Islamist conservative were given the ascendancy while the educated liberals were suppressed.