Crime, teenage abortion, and unwantedness.
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- This article disaggregates Donohue and Levitt’s (DL’s) national panel-data models to the state level and shows that high concentrations of teenage abortions in a handful of states drive all of DL’s results in their 2001, 2004, and 2008 articles on crime and abortion. These findings agree with previous research showing teenage motherhood is a major maternal crime factor, whereas unwanted pregnancy is an insignificant factor. Teenage abortions accounted for more than 30% of U.S. abortions in the 1970s, but only 16% to 18% since 2001, which suggests DL’s panel-data models of crime/arrests and abortion were outdated when published. The results point to a broad range of future research involving teenage behavior. A specific means is proposed to reconcile DL with previous articles finding no relationship between crime and abortion.
- subject
- Crime
- teenage abortion
- contributor
- date
- 2020-02-13T19:42:05Z (accessioned)
- 2020-02-13T19:42:05Z (available)
- 11/18/15 (issued)
- identifier
- Shoesmith, G. L. (2017). Crime, teenage abortion, and unwantedness. Crime & Delinquency, 63(11), 1458-1490. (citation)
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0011128715615882 (doi)
- http://hdl.handle.net/10339/95976 (uri)
- language
- en (iso)
- publisher
- SAGE
- rights
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ (uri)
- source
- Crime & Delinquency
- title
- Crime, teenage abortion, and unwantedness.
- type
- Article