Analysis Of The Chapter 'Where Have All The Criminals Gone?'

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1. In this chapter of "Where Have All the Criminals Gone?" it gives us multiple explanations as to what effects the number of crimes dropping. Some of those explanations were proven to make a difference in the number of crimes dropped and some of them didn't. In the beginning of the chapter is mentions abortion and further on the topic of abortion fades away and leads into different topics, being the crime dropping explanations, such as strong economy, increased reliance on prison, increased use of capital punishment, innovative police strategies, and etc. One believes that the purpose of the chapter was to find out if abortion had anything to do with the drop of crime a generation after it was legalized. The thesis of this chapter is that