[Historical]

In this interesting article by the BBC, the issue of the drop in American crime rates is reviewed. This is done by looking at several theories explaining the drop in crime, all of which occurred according to the BBC despite the 2008 financial crisis and deep recession.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13799616

[Rancid]

This is straight out of the book Freakconomic.

[dgun]

Did you read that book Rancid? It was interesting, but I thought it was about 50% bullshit.

As to the article, none of the theories seem like winners to me.

The abortion theory is particularly stupid. There are a lot of built in assumptions in that one.