@article{ref1,
title="Exploring spatial associations between on-sale alcohol availability, neighborhood population characteristics, and violent crime in a geographically isolated city",
journal="Journal of addiction",
year="2013",
author="Han, Daikwon and Gorman, Dennis M.",
volume="2013",
number="",
pages="e356152-e356152",
abstract="OBJECTIVES. Despite the increasing evidence of the associations between alcohol availability and violence, there are still inconsistent findings on the effects of on- and off-sale alcohol outlets on violent crime. The aim of this study was to examine spatial associations between on-sale alcohol availability, neighborhood characteristics, and violent crime in a geographically isolated city in Texas. <br><br>METHODS. Geographically weighted regression (GWR) and global regression models were employed to analyze the nature of the spatial relationship between violent crime, neighborhood sociocultural characteristics, and on-sale alcohol environment. <br><br>RESULTS. We found strong effects of neighborhood characteristics combined with on-sale alcohol availability on violence outcomes. Several neighborhood variables combined with alcohol availability explained about 63% of the variability in violence. An additional 7% was explained by the GWR model, while spatially nonstationary associations between violence and some predictor variables were observed. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS. This study provided more credible evidence of the influence of on-sale alcohol outlets on violence in a unique setting. These findings have important policy implications in addressing the question of public health consequences of alcohol-related violence in local contexts.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2090-7834",
doi="10.1155/2013/356152",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/356152"
}