The Changing Relationship between Income and Crime Victimization

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A random walk in the literature on criminality: A partial and critical view on some statistical analyses and modelling approaches (2010, unknown): “There is a famous controversy concerning the evidence put forward by Donohue and Levitt [25] that legalization of abortion in the 70’s explains 50% of the drop in criminality starting at the 90s, roughly eighteen years after.”
Inequality and crime revisited: effects of local inequality and economic segregation on crime (2015, background): “While simple and intuitive, the above description does not seem to be consistent with the observed pattern of crime victimization in the U.S. Crime victimization is disproportionately concentrated among the poor, who should provide less criminal gains to offenders (Levitt 1999; Thacher 2004).”