Objective: Alcohol is more likely than any other drug to be involved in substance-related
violence. In 2000 violence-related and self-directed injuries accounted for an estimated $37 …

Background Alcohol related violence continues to be a major public health problem in the
United States. In particular, there is substantial evidence of an association between alcohol …

Objective: Groups of potentially violent drinkers may frequent areas of communities with
large numbers of alcohol outlets, especially bars, leading to greater rates of alcohol-related …

Background While there are overwhelming data supporting the association between alcohol
outlet density and violent crime, there remain conflicting findings about whether on‐or off …

Objectives. We examined the relationship between alcohol outlets, drug markets
(approximated by arrests for possession and trafficking), and violence in Boston …

Aims. While there is substantial evidence of an association between alcohol outlet density
and assault, it is unlikely this association is constant across the urban environment. This …

Background Numerous studies have found that areas with higher alcohol establishment
density are more likely to have higher violent crime rates, but many of these studies did not …

This study assessed the geographic association between rates of assaultive violence and
alcohol-outlet density in Kansas City, Missouri. Data were obtained for sociodemographic …

A representative sample of patients in hospital emergency rooms (ERs) in a Northern
California county (n= 3731) were compared with a household probability sample of those …

Aims: To examine the relationship between alcohol outlet density and violent crime
controlling for neighbourhood sociostructural characteristics and the effects of spatially …