{"id":3467,"date":"2016-01-16T00:06:02","date_gmt":"2016-01-16T00:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/?p=3467"},"modified":"2016-01-16T00:06:02","modified_gmt":"2016-01-16T00:06:02","slug":"study-one-of-the-most-popular-theories-for-americas-huge-crime-drop-is-wrong-vox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/16\/study-one-of-the-most-popular-theories-for-americas-huge-crime-drop-is-wrong-vox\/","title":{"rendered":"Study: one of the most popular theories for America&#8217;s huge crime drop is wrong &#8211; Vox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2016\/1\/14\/10767992\/crime-lead-theory-study\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/97962867.0.jpg?w=625&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[I found the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/environment\/2013\/01\/lead-crime-link-gasoline\">theory<\/a>, that lead was a major cause of the US crime boom, pretty convincing. This study argues that it was a spurious correlation due to faulty data. On the other hand, one of the major original proponents of the theory <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/kevin-drum\/2016\/01\/lead-and-crime-another-look\">makes a decent argument<\/a> that this study is itself flawed, and the lead theory still has legs. -egg]<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One of the more exotic explanations for America&#8217;s incredible decades-long drop in crime is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/cards\/crime-rate-drop\/lead-crime\">lead theory<\/a>. As the theory goes, we know that lead exposure is really harmful \u2014 it can cause learning disabilities, lower IQs, impulsivity, and aggressive behavior. So when America began taking lead out of its gasoline, it reduced all these bad outcomes \u2014 and crime, statistics show, fell right alongside rates of lead exposure.<\/p>\n<p>A new\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007%2Fs10940-015-9277-2\" target=\"_blank\">study<\/a> published in the <em>Journal of Quantitative Criminology<\/em> suggests, however, that this correlation may not exist at all, calling the supposed drop in both lead and crime a statistical &#8220;artifact&#8221; based on faulty crime data. And that means one of the most popular theories about the crime drop could be wrong.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2016\/1\/14\/10767992\/crime-lead-theory-study\">Study: one of the most popular theories for America&#8217;s huge crime drop is wrong &#8211; Vox<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[I found the theory, that lead was a major cause of the US crime boom, pretty convincing. This study argues that it was a spurious correlation due to faulty data. On the other hand, one of the major original proponents of the theory makes a decent argument that this study is itself flawed, and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-TV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3469,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3467\/revisions\/3469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}