Regulations on the availability of alcohol have been used to moderate alcohol problems in
communities throughout the world for thousands of years. In the latter half of the 20th …

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 …

Objectives: Test whether the exposure of street segments to five different potentially
criminogenic facilities is positively related to violent, property, or disorder crime counts …

Objectives: To examine whether a diverse range of both structured and unstructured routine
activities is associated with offending, and whether activities have crime-specific effects …

This study examined the association between alcohol outlets and violence. Employing
Cincinnati block groups as units of analysis, the authors estimated spatially lagged …

There is growing evidence that crime is strongly concentrated in micro-geographic hot spots,
a fact that has led to the wide-scale use of hot spots policing programs. Such programs are …

Objectives The residential population of an area is an incomplete measure of the number of
people that are momentarily present in the area, and of limited value as an indicator of …

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 …

Using social disorganisation theory as a framework for analysis, this article analyses the
relationship between social cohesion and violence in post-apartheid South Africa. On the …

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 …