Reconsidering the Donohue-Levitt Hypothesis
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...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Philosophy Documentation Center
[2016]
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American catholic philosophical quarterly
Year: 2016, Volume: 90, Issue: 4, Pages: 583-620 |
| Further subjects: | B
PLAUSIBILITY (Logic)
B Homicide B OFFENSES against property B Crime B ABORTION laws |
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Presumably Free Access Volltext (doi) |