Research Links Lead Exposure, Criminal Activity - washingtonp...
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What makes Nevin's work persuasive is that he has shown an identical, decades-long association between lead poisoning and crime rates in nine countries
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"Sixty-five to ninety percent or more of the substantial variation in violent crime in all these countries was explained by lead."
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Most of the theories have been long on intuition and short on evidence. Nevin says his data not only explain the decline in crime in the 1990s, but the rise in crime in the 1980s and other fluctuations going back a century. His data from multiple countries, which have different abortion rates, police strategies, demographics and economic conditions, indicate that lead is the only explanation that can account for international trends.
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