ArticleDrug and alcohol review2018
Violent crime redistribution in a city following a substantial increase in the number of off-sale alcohol outlets: A Bayesian analysis.
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- Proximity to the U.S./Mexico border, alcohol outlet density and population-based sociodemographic correlates of spatially aggregated violent crimes in California.Annals of epidemiology · 2021Article
- The good, the bad, and the environment: developing an area-based measure of access to health-promoting and health-constraining environments in New Zealand.International journal of health geographics · 2021Article
- Multiresolution Analyses of Neighborhood Correlates of Crime: Smaller Is Not Better.American journal of epidemiology · 2021Article
- Looking Back and Moving Forward: The Evolution and Potential Opportunities for the Future of Alcohol Outlet Density Measurement.Addiction research & theory · 2021Article
- Mapping disparities in homicide trends across Brazil: 2000-2014.Injury epidemiology · 2020Article
- A Spatial Analysis of Alcohol Outlet Density and Abandoned Properties on Violent Crime in Paterson New Jersey.Journal of community health · 2020Article
- Alcohol Outlet Clusters and Population Disparities.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2020Article
- The Violence Prevention Potential of Reducing Alcohol Outlet Access in Baltimore, Maryland.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2020Article
- Design and outcome measures for the AB InBev Global Smart Drinking Goals evaluation.Contemporary clinical trials communications · 2019Article
- Methods for Evaluating the Association Between Alcohol Outlet Density and Violent Crime.Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research · 2019Article
- Density of Medical Marijuana Dispensaries and Current Marijuana Use among Young Adult Marijuana Users in Los Angeles.Substance use & misuse · 2019Article
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INTRODUCTION AND
aimsThis study examined whether the introduction of a large number of off-premise alcohol outlets into a city over a brief period of time could affect rates of violent crime. DESIGN AND
methodsThe study analysed annual counts of violent crime across 172 US Census block groups in Lubbock, Texas from 2006 through 2011. Spatial Poisson models related annual violent crime counts within each block group to off-premise and on-premise alcohol outlets active during this time period as well as neighbourhood socio-demographic characteristics. The effects of alcohol outlets were assessed both within block groups and across adjacent block groups.
resultsOn-premise outlets had a small, significant positive association with violence within a given block group. A similar well-supported local effect for off-premise outlets was not found. However, the spatially lagged effect for off-sale premises was well-supported, indicating that greater densities of these outlets were related to greater rates of violent crime in adjacent areas. DISCUSSION AND
conclusionsWhile these analyses confirmed a previous time-series analysis in finding no city-wide effect of the increase in off-premise outlets, they do suggest that such outlets in a local area may be related to violence in nearby geographic areas. They indicate the importance of examining neighbourhood-specific effects of alcohol outlets on violence in addition to the city-wide effects. They also present further evidence supporting the need to examine the differential effects of on-sale and off-sale premises.
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