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Criminology

the claim that legalized abortion reduced later crime by lowering births of children at elevated risk of offending.

In criminology, abortion-crime hypothesis refers to the claim that legalized abortion reduced later crime by lowering births of children at elevated risk of offending. This meaning comes from Donohue (2001) in The Quarterly Journal of Economics.[1]

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Donohue, J. J., & Levitt, S. D. (2001). The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 116(2), 379-420. https://doi.org/10.1162/00335530151144050

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