Violent Crime and Alcohol Availability: Relationships in an Urban Community

The relationship between violent crime, neighborhood sociodemographic characteristics, and alcohol outlet densities in Newark, New Jersey is reported, thus extending previous research of municipalities at more refined levels of analysis. Alcohol outlet densities were significant predictors in regres...

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Published in:Journal of public health policy 1998-01, Vol.19 (3), p.303-318
Main Authors: Speer, Paul W., Gorman, D. M., Labouvie, Erich W., Ontkush, Mark J.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Alcohol
Alcohol drinking
Alcohol Drinking - epidemiology
Alcohol related crime
Alcoholic Beverages
Alcohols
Barrooms
Census
Census tracts
Censuses
Cities
Commerce
Crime
Crime - statistics & numerical data
Crime and criminals
Crime Rates
Criminal statistics
Female
Humans
Land use
Liquor stores
Local government
Male
Municipalities
Neighborhoods
New Jersey
New Jersey - epidemiology
Newark, New Jersey
Regression Analysis
Regression models
Residence Characteristics
Retail Industry
Shops
Social conditions
Sociodemographic Characteristics
Sociodemographics
Socioeconomic Factors
Spatial Analysis
United States
Urban Areas
Urban Population
Violence
Violence - statistics & numerical data
Violent crime
Violent crimes
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Summary:The relationship between violent crime, neighborhood sociodemographic characteristics, and alcohol outlet densities in Newark, New Jersey is reported, thus extending previous research of municipalities at more refined levels of analysis. Alcohol outlet densities were significant predictors in regression models, but rates of violent crime were better predicted in larger units (R2=.673 for the census tract level vs. .543 at the census block group level). Alcohol outlet densities, however, were more predictive of violent crime at smaller units of analysis (change in R2with the addition of alcohol outlet densities was .194 at the census tract level vs. .278 at the census block group level). Findings suggest that alcohol outlets represent a form of "undesirable land use" in urban neighborhoods that are a manifestation of increasingly concentrated economic disadvantage in the United States.
ISSN:0197-5897
1745-655X
DOI:10.2307/3343538