A decline in crime

The case of the unsolved crime decline.

Uric Acid and Decline in Renal Function-Partners in Crime.

treated for hypertension in the UK [3] . A novel finding from this study was that an increase in serum uric acid over a 5-year period was associated with a greater decline in eGFR (OR 3.77, 95% CI 3.35–4.26 for each 1 mg/dL increase). Whilst, as the authors acknowledge, dissecting an independent effect of uric acid on decline in eGFR is challenging due to the effect of reducing kidney function ...

The Decline of Community in Iran: A chronological story

The empirical data show a fundamental transformation in the fabric of the Iranian society in recent decades. The essence of this transformation is what we have called the “decline of community’, also labelled as the ‘depletion of social capital’, referring to the loss of social ties and the erosion of moral life which hold members of society together. In this article, drawing on a large volume ...

The Decline of Community in Iran: A chronological story

The empirical data show a fundamental transformation in the fabric of the Iranian society in recent decades. The essence of this transformation is what we have called the “decline of community’, also labelled as the ‘depletion of social capital’, referring to the loss of social ties and the erosion of moral life which hold members of society together. In this article, drawing on a large volume ...

Measurement Error , Legalized Abortion , the Decline in Crime : A Response to Foote

Donohue and Levitt (2001) argue that the legalization of abortion in the United States in the 1970s played an important role in explaining the observed decline in crime approximately two decades later. Foote and Goetz (2005) challenge the results presented in one of the tables in that original paper. In this reply, we regretfully acknowledge the omission of state-year interactions in the publis...