Reconsidering the Donohue-Levitt Hypothesis
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2016
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According to the Donohue-Levitt hypothesis, the legalization of abortion in the United States in the 1970s explains some of the decrease in crime in the 1990s. In this paper, I challenge this hypothesis. First, I argue against the intermediate mechanisms whereby abortion in the 1970s is supposed to cause a decrease in crime in the 1990s. Second, I argue against the correlations that support this causal relationship.
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Author Posting of a preprint © American Catholic Philosophical Association, 2016. This article is posted here for personal use, not for redistribution. The article was published in American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 90, Issue 04, Fall 2016, http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/acpq2016915100
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Kahn, Samuel. "Reconsidering the Donohue-Levitt Hypothesis." American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 90, no. 4 (2016): 583-620. DOI: 10.5840/acpq2016915100
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