@article{ref1,
title="Crime, teenage abortion, and unwantedness",
journal="Crime and delinquency",
year="2017",
author="Shoesmith, Gary L.",
volume="63",
number="11",
pages="1458-1490",
abstract="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in the 1970s, but only 16% to 18% since 2001, which suggests DL's panel-data models of crime/arrests and abortion were outdated when published.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.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0011-1287",
doi="10.1177/0011128715615882",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0011128715615882"
}