Crime Rate Decline
What was the reason for the decreased crime rate from the 1990s to the 2000s?
The increase in technology in the late 1980s-early 1990s made it easier for gangs and criminals to commit crimes. In the 1990s there was a lot of crime going on and many people though that it was going to keep increasing into the 2000s but to many peoples surprise the crime rate actually decreased. After the 1990s, which was a decade full of crime, many people thought that the crime rate would increase in the 2000s, but due to the decreased price of abortion this crime rate actually decreased.
With a price decrease, abortion was made available to more people including the less fortunate/poorer people in which most of these people lived in crime-ridden neighborhoods. With this crime influence on the child in their own neighborhood, he/she would mostly likely be more apt to go to prison when compared to a child who lived with a normal middle class family. Now that abortions were made available and affordable to these people they would be able to get the procedure therefore decreasing the number of children in the neighborhoods.. Crime is something that is carried on from generation to generation, not always in the family but not the same generation can be committing crimes all their lives. So if the criminals did not have a heavily influence one generation the crime rate would decrease. This is exactly what happened. This crime rate in the 1990s was significantly higher than 2000s. The generation that had been committing crimes in the 1990s matured and “grew out” of these crimes. They moved on with their lives and there were less people to take their place. When abortion was first legalized in 1973 in multiple states the crime rates in those states decrease significantly (Reading 1). With this theory it assumes that there were the same amount of babies conceived the only difference was the whether they were born or not.
In respect to Hobbes (Reading 1) this makes sense. This example
The increase in technology in the late 1980s-early 1990s made it easier for gangs and criminals to commit crimes. In the 1990s there was a lot of crime going on and many people though that it was going to keep increasing into the 2000s but to many peoples surprise the crime rate actually decreased. After the 1990s, which was a decade full of crime, many people thought that the crime rate would increase in the 2000s, but due to the decreased price of abortion this crime rate actually decreased.
With a price decrease, abortion was made available to more people including the less fortunate/poorer people in which most of these people lived in crime-ridden neighborhoods. With this crime influence on the child in their own neighborhood, he/she would mostly likely be more apt to go to prison when compared to a child who lived with a normal middle class family. Now that abortions were made available and affordable to these people they would be able to get the procedure therefore decreasing the number of children in the neighborhoods.. Crime is something that is carried on from generation to generation, not always in the family but not the same generation can be committing crimes all their lives. So if the criminals did not have a heavily influence one generation the crime rate would decrease. This is exactly what happened. This crime rate in the 1990s was significantly higher than 2000s. The generation that had been committing crimes in the 1990s matured and “grew out” of these crimes. They moved on with their lives and there were less people to take their place. When abortion was first legalized in 1973 in multiple states the crime rates in those states decrease significantly (Reading 1). With this theory it assumes that there were the same amount of babies conceived the only difference was the whether they were born or not.
In respect to Hobbes (Reading 1) this makes sense. This example