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Businesses, Places, and Homicide: A Preliminary Empirical Examination.
- Source :
- Deviant Behavior; Oct2021, Vol. 42 Issue 10, p1329-1344, 16p, 2 Charts, 4 Graphs
- Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- This paper empirically examines the relations between homicide rates by age (adults 18 to 24 and adults 25 or older), the tattoo shop density, on-site and off-site alcohol outlets, and disadvantage. It offers an additional explanation for the relation between alcohol outlets and homicide besides alcohol availability and consumption being facilitators of such lethal violence, suggesting that these businesses are a proxy for attracting those most prone to violent behavior. The analysis estimated linear pooled cross-sectional time series models to test the relations between age-specific homicide rates and tattoo shop density, on-site alcohol density, off-site alcohol density, and a multidimensional measure of disadvantage. These relations were examined among 88 of the largest cities in the United States for the years 1998 to 2006 (city-years = 792). The findings showed positive relations between homicides rates involving young adults 18 to 24 years of age, off-site alcohol outlets, tattoo shops, controlling for disadvantage. Findings suggest business establishments that attract young adults increase the likelihood of lethal violence not solely because of the availability and consumption of alcohol, but by increasing the convergence in space and time of motivated offenders and suitable targets, with limited or absent capable guardianship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- HOMICIDE rates
VIOLENCE
HOMICIDE
ALCOHOL drinking
ADULTS
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 01639625
- Volume :
- 42
- Issue :
- 10
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Deviant Behavior
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 152573500
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/01639625.2020.1743137