What Caused The Precipitous Decline In Crime?

America's Real Criminal Element: Lead

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/10/americas-real-criminal-element-lead.html

Harvard's Steve Pinker Notes Slight Uptick In Violence In A Much More Peaceful World

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/09/harvard-prof-steven-pinker-on-slight.html

What caused the decline in crime? "Our team of economic and criminal justice researchers spent the last 20 months testing fourteen popular theories for the crime decline. We delved deep into over 30 years of data collected from all 50 states and the 50 largest cities. The results are sharply etched: we do not know with precision what caused the crime decline, but the growth in incarceration played only a minor role, and now has a negligible impact." Inimai M. Chettiar in The Atlantic.