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Anonymous
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The Roe vs. Wade thing is probably bullshit. I quote from "Understanding international crime trends: The legacy of preschool lead exposure":
"Donohue and Levitt credit early abortion legalization with early crime declines in New York and California, but state-wide abortion legalization did not presage an early state-wide New York crime decline."
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"Levitt admits [the abortion] model cannot explain 1973--1991 trends, when crime and incarceration rates surged as police per capita changed little. International crime trends are even more vexing. Britain legalized abortion before the USA, but violent crime rose in Britain and across Europe and Oceana in the 1990s despite rising incarceration rates, rising or unchanged police per capita, and declines in the age 15---19 share of the population."
You can download the complete paper from: http://pic.plover.com/Nevin/Nevin2007.pdf
This paper's alternative theory is that dropping crime rates are a result of elimination of lead from the environment starting in the 1970s. Neurological studies show that childhood lead exposure leads to poor impulse control as an adult.
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